What does it mean when people say AI was "trained"?
You will learn what training an AI really means.
Training means AI read a huge amount of text. It looked at how words and ideas connect. From that, it learned to predict good replies.
No human typed in every answer by hand. Instead, it found patterns on its own. That is what "trained" really means.
So AI is not a stored list of facts. It is more like a skill it practiced. That skill is guessing helpful words.
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In very simple words, explain how you were trained to answer questions. Pretend I have never heard the word "training" before.
Paste it into ChatGPT, then change the words in brackets to fit you. It opens in a new tab, so you will not lose this page.
Buddy says
You do not need the tech details to use AI well. A simple idea of it is plenty.