How AI Actually Works: From Neurons to ChatGPT
Unit 3 · Lesson 1

Why a Raw Model Answers a Question With More Questions

You'll be able to explain that a pretrained model only continues text, and describe how instruction tuning — training on thousands of written request-and-reply examples — teaches it to answer instead.
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