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Training Data Tour — Where AI Gets Its Examples
AI does not learn at school — it learns from billions of examples we feed it. Take the tour.
Explorers · AI Foundations · ~4 min read
Example, Example, Example
How does AI know that "woof" comes from a dog? Because it saw the word "dog" with the word "woof" a million times. AI learns from EXAMPLES. Lots and LOTS of them.
Where examples come from
- Books, articles, and websites (for word AI like ChatGPT)
- Photos with captions (for picture AI)
- Videos with subtitles (for video AI)
- Audio clips with transcripts (for voice AI)
What if examples are messy?
If AI learns from grumpy or wrong examples, it gets grumpy and wrong too. That is why people who build AI try to clean up the examples — but they cannot catch everything.
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