Foundations

Training Data

The pile of examples an AI learns from. Swap that pile and the AI behaves differently — even if nothing else about it changes.

In practice

An AI trained only on cat photos will not recognize a dog.

Where students meet it

Training Data is taught in the intro lesson, Welcome to AI Explorers, part of the Foundations unit of the AI Explorers course for kids. Atlas is the guide for that lesson, and it is one of 8 terms in the unit.

Often mixed up with

  • Model

    The trained "brain" of an AI — what is left after it has learned all its patterns. Two of them can behave differently if they learned from different examples.

Back to all 58 AI terms for students.

KNOWING THE WORD IS THE START

Training Data is one of 58 terms students meet across 16 video lessons that teach them to direct AI rather than just use it.