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fhd2today at 1:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's not tool use with natural language search queries? That's what I'd expect.


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thunkytoday at 3:58 PM

It's RAG via tool use, where the storage and retreival method is an implementation detail.

I'm not a huge fan of the term RAG though because if you squint almost all tool use could be considered RAG.

But if you stick with RAG being a form of "knowledge search" then I think Google search easily fits.

kaicianflonetoday at 1:45 PM

It is tool use with natural language search queries but going down a layer they are searched on a vector DB, very similar to RAG. Essentially Google RankBrain is the very far ancestor to RAG before compute and scaling.