Jerry Liu on the Future of AI: LlamaIndex, LLMs, RAG, Prompting and more ! What's AI Podcast Episode 25
What's AI Podcast by Louis-François Bouchard
Introduction to Assistance API and its Capabilities
The Assistance API is a hosted agent-like experience that offers in-house retrieval, code interpretation, and function calling for tools passed in. It is designed to focus on providing good search retrieval experiences over data and can be used in conjunction with lama index rag pipelines. The assistance API is recommended for function calling on top of data indexed with lama index, as the current retrieval API is considered basic and suitable only for toy data use cases. Additionally, using OpenAI APIs may lead to crashes, while the Assistance API can be integrated with OpenAI APIs and offers increased reliability.
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