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Training Data

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The information an AI studied in order to learn.

Lesson #2: Working With AI: Prompts, Data & Guardrails
Think of it like…

The textbooks and years of experience behind an expert's advice.

Everyday example

Your phone's autocorrect learned from millions of typed sentences.

Construction example

An estimating AI trained on thousands of past job invoices and material costs.

Business example

A support AI trained on five years of customer service tickets.

Why this matters

If the training data is narrow or biased, the answers will be too — good data is the foundation.

One-sentence summary

Training data is everything the AI learned from.

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Name the three information sources you'd want an AI to learn from before it worked in your business.

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