Image credit: DALL-E 3 by OpenAI - prompt: "Cool header image for an article about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)"
About the time that ChatGPT hit the scene in December 2022, a new technique was discovered that could turn any kind of documentation into a conversational agent, capable of answering an endless stream of questions without ever tiring.
Probably due to it's simplicity and universal appeal, this use case quickly became a popular entry point for experimenting with large language models and private data. So, how does it work?