How does Active Learning Work?
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
Active learning explained in 5 minutes

Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
We now deal with immense amounts of data thanks to the superpowers of large models, including the famous ChatGPT but also vision models and all other types you may be working with right now.
Indeed, the secret behind those models is not only the large amount of data they are being trained on but also the quality of that data. What does this mean? It means we need lots of very good, balanced, and varied data. And, as data scientists, we all know how complicated and painful it can be… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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