CrossGen AI ContentHubLEARN · Week 1 · Foundations
Pre-Training: The Prediction Machine
Pre-training turns the tokenized internet into a prediction machine. The next word is a weighted coin flip over everything that came before, which is why your wording steers everything, and why rare topics need more context from you.
After this lesson
- You understand how pre-training uses past data to predict the next word.
- You recognize that your specific wording guides the model's final output.
- You know why rare topics need extra context during the pre-training phase.
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