Tying an AI system's answers to a specific set of source material, usually an organisation's own documents, rather than letting it answer from its training alone. Grounding answers in your own documents is a stated outcome of the ChatGPT programmes, and which content a tool is grounded in is a distinction the Copilot Chat course works through directly.
It is taught as a practical distinction rather than a technical one: the Copilot Chat day covers what Work Mode and Web Mode are grounded in and why that difference matters, and the advanced ChatGPT programme builds document-grounded question and answer on the organisation's own files.
The failure grounding is meant to reduce.
Read HallucinationThe technology being grounded.
Read Large language model (LLM)The courses that teach it on your own documents.
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