So ChatGPT has assistants, which is a big abstraction layer over a sentient...

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So ChatGPT has assistants, which is a big abstraction layer over a sentient document. It formalizes roles & tools. One built in tool is retrieval, aka myfiles_browser. I think it takes your docs, puts them in a semantic embeddings (like a fancy database) and then does a tool search. Or I'm wrong and embeddings are plug-in info for the bot, like Neo learning Kungfu in the matrix.

However...

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I give the bot a bunch of files and ask it about the files by name & it is hit or miss if it recognizes the file name. It *does* know the file ID. It is hit or miss if it is willing to think about the contents of the files. If it is plug-in knowledge, like Neo's Kungfu, it doesn't feel like it.

What it feels like is bad RAG, like I gave it a bunch of text files and grep and said, "Hey, answer my question, you got these files and grep, go at it!"