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How AI Answers Your Question

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1. Your Question

You ask the AI to do something.

2. Prompt

The instruction or question you give an AI system.

3. LLM

An AI model trained on large amounts of text to understand and generate human language.

4. Context Window

The amount of information an AI model can consider at one time.

5. Token

A small piece of text that an AI model reads or generates.

6. Embedding

A numerical representation that captures the meaning or similarity of text, images or other data.

7. Vector Database

A database designed to store and search embeddings by similarity.

8. RAG

A technique that retrieves external information before an AI generates an answer.

9. Answer

The AI combines the available context and generates the response.