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How AI Answers Questions About Documents It Never Learned

1Why the Model Cannot Answer From Your Documents Alone2Chunking and Embedding: Turning Documents Into Something Searchable3Retrieval: Finding the Right Passages for a Question4Grounded Generation: Answering From the Retrieved Text
Why the Model Cannot Answer From Your Documents Alone

Knowledge Frozen at a Cutoff

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So where did that answer come from? Not from your document. Everything the model actually knows is stored in its weights, the numeric parameters fixed while it was being trained.
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A language model's knowledge is stored in its weights, the numeric parameters fixed during training. That training ends at a cutoff date, and only text present before that cutoff shaped the weights. Documents written after the cutoff, or kept private inside an organization, were never part of training, so the model has no representation of them at all.

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