Letter I

Data connected to Indigenous peoples, communities, lands, cultures, resources or knowledge.

This can include health records and population statistics as well as language, genealogy, traditional knowledge and environmental information. Indigenous data sovereignty holds that Indigenous peoples have rights and authority concerning how such data is collected, controlled, interpreted and used.

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Using a trained model to produce an answer or prediction.

Training is the learning stage; inference is the doing stage. Every time a model classifies an image, predicts a number or replies to a prompt, it is running inference.

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The information given to an AI system.

An input might be a prompt, image, voice recording, document, database row or sensor reading. The quality and clarity of the input affect the result.

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Training that teaches a model to respond usefully to human instructions.

A raw pretrained model mainly predicts what text comes next. Instruction tuning gives it examples of requests and good responses so it behaves more like an assistant.

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