A Beginner's Guide to AI What The Heck Is Inference? That's Where The Magic Happens 🚀
Dec 31, 2025
Discover the magic of AI inference, the secret to how platforms like Netflix predict your next binge! Professor Gephardt shares delightful analogies, including a fruit-loving robot and a cake-tasting mystery, to explain how AI learns from past data. Learn about Delta's impressive $30 million ticket sales driven by AI, and get tips on spotting inference in your digital life. Plus, find out how to experiment with your own AI models. Tune in for an engaging dive into the world of intelligent predictions!
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Inference Is The AI Moment Of Truth
- Inference is when a trained AI applies learned patterns to new, unseen data and makes predictions.
- It transforms past training into real-world decisions like recommendations or spam detection.
Robbie The Fruit-Learning Robot
- Robbie the fruit robot learned apples, oranges, bananas and strawberries during training.
- At the market Robbie uses that learning to judge a peach and call it a fruit.
Inference Uses Mathematical Maps And Confidence
- After training, models use mathematical maps to compare new inputs to known data and compute likelihoods.
- Inference combines speed, accuracy and confidence to produce usable predictions.