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308. AI: The Beast or Jerusalem? | Jonathan Pageau & Jim Keller

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Inference and Training - What Is It?

AI generally speaking, like when I first learned about it, had two two behaviors, they call it inference and training. So inferences, you have a trained model. You say you give it a picture and say, is there a cat in it? And it tells you where the cat is. The model has been trained to know where a cat is. Training is the process of doing it past with an expected output and propagating an error back through the network. Back propagation with gradient descent takes the error and divided up across the layers and correct those calculations.

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