information gaps

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, information gaps has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Diary Of A CEO (Sep 2026). Creating information gaps is a technique used to maintain interest and engagement in conversations.

In machine learning, a knowledge cutoff is the point in time beyond which a large language model has not been trained on new data. Since large language models are pretrained, any model's knowledge is fixed at what it was trained on before deployment; information about events after this date is absent from the model's training data. The model cannot access information about later events without a system for real-time data access such as retrieval-augmented generation, which fetches new informatio