Knowledge base
A curated collection of documents that a person or an AI system can access and use as context.
Also called
- KB
- Knowledge store
Often confused with
- Memory A note that an AI system saves from past sessions (facts, preferences, decisions) and brings back into later ones to help guide it, since the model itself remembers nothing between calls.
- Vector database A type of database that stores embeddings and can find the closest match to a query by meaning.