What Is AI Training?

By Jeremy Bowman – Updated Apr 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM

Key Points

AI training uses large datasets to teach algorithms, increasing AI capabilities significantly.
Better-trained AI models respond more accurately to complex prompts and professional tests.
Evaluating AI involves checking training data size, sources, and testing model precision and recall.

Generative AI, the seemingly magical technology behind apps like ChatGPT, is made up of two primary functions: AI training and AI inference. Both complement each other and work together to provide users with the best results for chat questions, image requests, and other common generative AI functions.

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About the Author

Jeremy Bowman has been a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst, covering technology, consumer goods, and macroeconomic trends since 2011. Before The Motley Fool, Jeremy was a newspaper reporter, restaurant manager, and English teacher abroad. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Colorado College and a master’s degree in business administration from American University. One of his Motley Fool headlines was briefly featured on Late Night with Stephen Colbert.

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