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Level 9 of 11 · AI Basics lab

Answer from a manual: retrieval with sources

Level 9 of 11 in the AI Basics lab: a free AI basics exercise at Advanced level, which takes about 15 minutes. Ask a question of a pump manual, see which passages were found, and fix a wrong answer by adding the missing page.

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Goal

Ask a question of a pump manual, see which passages were found, and fix a wrong answer by adding the missing page.

Done when

The acceptance test marks the skills this level practises.

  • Retrieval
  • Citations
  • Not in the manual

Skills

  • Retrieval
  • Citations
  • Not in the manual

Before you start

Level 8, How a chatbot picks its next word, comes first. Do it first if the ideas are new to you.

Free, in your browser, nothing to install. Your work is saved on this device. Updated 1 Nov 2026.

11 levels

Levels in the AI Basics lab

Learn what AI is by playing with it: teach a camera, watch a model learn, test it and check it is fair.

  1. Start What is AI? Rules or learning from examples
  2. Start Teach a camera to spot a dented part
  3. Start Data and labels: what we see and what we want to say
  4. Start Watch a model learn, then watch it memorise
  5. Start Is it any good? Catches, false alarms and the threshold
  6. Start Is it fair? Check a CV screen for a hidden proxy
  7. Start Words become numbers: tokens and a meaning map
  8. Start How a chatbot picks its next word
  9. Start Answer from a manual: retrieval with sources
  10. Start An AI agent at work: tools and guardrails
  11. Start Ship it and watch it: drift and a model card

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