AI glossary / How it works

Training

How it works, one of the 17 words to learn first

The learning stage, where a model is shown vast numbers of examples and adjusts itself until it gets good at the task.

More words in How it works

• Training dataThe material a model learned from. The quality of what goes in shapes the quality of what comes out.
• Transfer learningReusing what a model learned on one task as a head start on another.
• TransformerThe model design, introduced in 2017, behind nearly all modern language AI. It's the T in GPT.
• Unsupervised learningTraining where the AI finds patterns in data on its own, without being given the right answers.
• WeightsThe numbers inside a model that hold everything it has learned. Share the weights and you've shared the model.