November 12, 2025

#27: Cooking Up Intelligence: How AI Models Get Trained

9 minutes

How does an AI go from a blank slate to a powerful tool? It's not magic… it's a detailed, multi-stage training process.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

The five essential stages of AI training: Data Collection, Tokenization, Pretraining, Post-training, and Continuous Improvement.

What Supervised Learning is and how labeled "flashcards" or "gold standard" examples help fine-tune a model's accuracy.

The power of Unsupervised Learning in the pre-training phase, where models find hidden patterns in massive, unlabeled datasets (like Spotify recommendations).

How Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) uses a reward system (like ranking bowls of ramen) to make models more helpful and aligned.

This weeks poll: Human Feedback

...more

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November 12, 2025

#27: Cooking Up Intelligence: How AI Models Get Trained

9 minutes

How does an AI go from a blank slate to a powerful tool? It's not magic… it's a detailed, multi-stage training process.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

The five essential stages of AI training: Data Collection, Tokenization, Pretraining, Post-training, and Continuous Improvement.

What Supervised Learning is and how labeled "flashcards" or "gold standard" examples help fine-tune a model's accuracy.

The power of Unsupervised Learning in the pre-training phase, where models find hidden patterns in massive, unlabeled datasets (like Spotify recommendations).

How Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) uses a reward system (like ranking bowls of ramen) to make models more helpful and aligned.

This weeks poll: Human Feedback

...more

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