My AI Learning Journey – Part 7 – Combining LLMs with Web Search (opens in new tab)

For me, like most people, the everyday default use case for LLMs is to get answers to questions, i.e. I use it as kind of an enhanced search engine. So far, my experiments with local LLMs have focused on getting answers out of what the LLMs have learnt during the one time learning phase, i.e. what is ‘stored’ in their ‘weight’ parameters. While this works, there are two major shortcomings: First, information about current events is not available, as the training phase was in the past. And sec...