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training data

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The examples a model learns from.

For example, a model that learns to recognize birds is shown thousands of labeled bird photos during training.

Heard on the show

“It could be pure pattern-matching — the model recognizing that "shutting down a fellow AI" is a situation that, in the training data, gets described in those terms.”
Episode 001 — When AI Models Quietly Protect Each Other From Shutdown

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