Ethan Mollick says RAG document chat fell from hype within about 18 months

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick says on X that "talk to your documents" RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) products were widely seen as the future of AI about a year and a half earlier.

He writes that this view was common at that time, implying it has since faded. The post is a single social media statement, and the report contains no further data, adoption figures or other sources on the trend.