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Role prompting is a technique where you instruct the generative AI model to "act as" a specific persona or character. By assigning the model a role (e.g., "Act as a marketing expert writing for a young, tech-savvy audience"), you can guide its tone, style, and content to be appropriate for the target audience of the marketing campaign.

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The limitation described is the AI model generating a false or misleading response (humans traveling faster than light is scientifically impossible/unproven) and presenting it as fact (confidently stating a fictional theory is real) without the ability to indicate its uncertainty or the source's fictional nature. This is the definition of a Hallucination in generative AI.

AI Hallucinations occur when a Large Language Model (LLM) generates outputs that are factually incorrect, irrelevant, or nonsensical, despite being linguistically fluent and seemingly plausible. They arise because the model is designed to predict the most statistically probable next word or token based on its training data, even when it lacks information or when its training data contains a mixture of fact and fiction. The model is overconfident in its generated response, a behavior that diminishes user trust and reliability, especially in applications where factual accuracy is critical. While a knowledge cutoff (B) is a common cause of hallucinations when an LLM is asked about recent events, the core limitation of fabricating facts from its own hardwired knowledge is the hallucination itself. Data dependency (A) relates to the model's reliance on the quality and completeness of its training data, and while flawed training data can be a cause, the error mode of inventing facts is the Hallucination.

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This scenario perfectly describes reinforcement learning. In reinforcement learning, an agent learns to make decisions by interacting with an environment, receiving1 rewards for desirable actions and penalties for undesirable ones,2 and iteratively improving its behavior through trial and error to maximize cumulative reward.

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Since the team has not yet assigned any labels or categories to the sensor readings and wants to identify "anomalies, malfunctions, or natural groupings" based on the data alone, this is a classic unsupervised learning problem. Unsupervised learning techniques like clustering or anomaly detection are used to find hidden patterns or structures in unlabeled data.

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The central problem is the Large Language Model's (LLM's) knowledge cutoff, where it cannot answer questions about information that appeared after its training data was collected (e.g., recently updated product details).

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is specifically designed to overcome this limitation. The process involves:

Retrieval: When a question is asked, the RAG system first searches an external, up-to-date knowledge source (like a vector database of current product docs).

Augmentation: It retrieves the most relevant, recent text snippets (the context).

Generation: This retrieved context is added to the user's prompt (augmentation) and sent to the LLM, forcing the model to ground its response in the current facts.

The key benefit is thus to enable the chatbot to access and utilize external, up-to-date knowledge sources (D). This ensures the answers are accurate and relevant to the most current product information, directly addressing the knowledge cutoff issue without requiring expensive model retraining.

Option B is the function of the Temperature setting, not RAG.

Option C describes an unproven and unscalable model update mechanism (fine-tuning is a separate process).

RAG is a process enhancement that prioritizes accuracy and relevance over merely reducing computation (A).

(Reference: Google Cloud documentation on RAG states that its primary purpose is to address the “knowledge cutoff” and hallucination issues of LLMs by retrieving relevant and up-to-date information from external knowledge sources at inference time and using this retrieved information to ground the LLM's generation, ensuring factual accuracy.)

The prompt explicitly instructs the Large Language Model (LLM) to perform a step-by-step reasoning process before arriving at the final answer. The instructions lay out a sequential series of intermediate steps: "first identify," "then check," "if a solution exists, explain," "if not, escalate."

This technique is known as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting. CoT is a powerful prompt engineering technique where the user or developer explicitly includes intermediate reasoning steps in the prompt. This guides the model to break down a complex, multi-step problem into smaller, manageable, logical steps, significantly improving its reasoning ability and the accuracy of its final output for complex queries like customer service troubleshooting or multi-step analysis.

Zero-shot (A) would be the raw question without any structure.

Few-shot (B) would involve providing examples of successfully solved problems.

Role-based (C) would involve assigning a persona (e.g., "Act as a customer service expert") but would not explicitly mandate the sequential process.

The inclusion of the explicit steps ("first identify," "then check," etc.) is the defining characteristic of Chain-of-Thought prompting.

(Reference: Google's courses on Prompt Engineering classify Chain-of-Thought prompting as the technique that improves reasoning by explicitly giving the model a series of sequential, intermediate steps to follow to arrive at a better answer for complex tasks.)

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The core problem is the lack of reasons for rejection, leading to customer complaints. This falls under the domain of explainable AI (XAI). Implementing explainable gen AI policies or mechanisms would allow the institution to provide transparency into how the AI made its decision, addressing the customer complaints directly. While other options might improve the model, they don't directly solve the transparency issue.

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The primary purpose of RAG is to address the "knowledge cutoff" and hallucination issues of LLMs. It does this by retrieving relevant, up-to-date information from external knowledge sources (like databases or documents) at inference time and then using this retrieved information to ground the LLM's generation, ensuring factual accuracy and relevance to the specific query.

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Google Agentspace (or similar agent-based frameworks) aims to connect and orchestrate various AI capabilities and data sources. In a scenario with knowledge silos, a key benefit would be to enable seamless knowledge sharing and collaboration by allowing agents to access, process, and disseminate information across different internal systems and teams.

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The core reason for the model's failure is that the training data itself was flawed (disproportionate demographic representation and outdated language). This flaw directly leads to the observed bias and poor performance on underrepresented groups and modern communication styles.

This is a classic example of Data Dependency, a fundamental limitation of all machine learning models, including generative AI. Data dependency refers to the absolute reliance of an AI model on the quality, completeness, and fairness of the data on which it was trained. Since the model essentially only mimics the patterns it learned from its dataset, if the dataset contains societal, demographic, or linguistic biases, the model will faithfully reproduce and amplify those biases in its output, leading to unfair classification for certain groups.

Hallucination (C) is the invention of facts or data.

Overfitting (D) is poor generalization because the model memorized the training data too well, typically resulting in very poor performance across all unseen data, not just specific demographics.

Bias is the result of the data dependency, not the fundamental limitation itself.

(Reference: Google's training on Generative AI Limitations identifies Data Dependency as the fundamental limitation where the model is limited by the scope and quality of its training data, directly leading to issues of bias when the data is not diverse or representative.)