Training
Level 1
The process of showing a model huge amounts of data so it can learn patterns.
Term 4 of 8 in Basic AI
In plain language
Training is the expensive, slow part. The model is shown enormous quantities of text, images or other data and adjusted millions of times until its guesses get good. Once training finishes, the model is fixed.
Think of it like this
Training is school. Using the model afterwards is the job.
Why it matters
Training explains why models have a knowledge cutoff and why they cannot learn from your conversation unless the product deliberately stores it.
Next terms in Basic AI
- Artificial intelligenceSoftware that performs tasks we normally think of as requiring human judgement.
- Machine learningA way of building software that learns patterns from examples instead of being given rules.
- ModelThe trained file that holds everything an AI system learned.
- AlgorithmA defined set of steps for solving a problem.