What is Training Data?
The huge collection of examples, like books, websites, photos and recordings, that an AI model learned its patterns from. What it includes, and what it leaves out, shapes every answer.
what goes in shapes what comes out
Training data is…
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In real work
Her son asked why the AI kept drawing every scientist as an older man, and she explained that its training data probably had lots of pictures like that.
In the illustration
Books, photos and records slide off the shelf through a reader, and each one sets pins in the drum. Where the shelf is thin, that band of the drum stays nearly bare.
What kinds of training data was your AI assistant built from, what might it know less about because of that, and what should I double-check when I ask it about my own town?
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