LLMs Unveiled: Understanding AI Training

Andrew explains in plain language how large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are ACtrained and why that matters for ministry and fundraising. He notes what training doesn’t provide: human-like reasoning or your parish’s specific context. He ends with three weekly challenges: a pattern test, a context test, and checking the model’s cutoff limits.00:00 Welcome And Goal01:03 How LLMs Learn Patterns02:17 Ministry Fundraising Analogy03:05 Three Training Stages03:08 Pre Training Basics03:50 Fine Tuning For Helpfulness04:26 Alignment And RLHF05:07 Why Training Stages Matter05:49 What Training Does Not Teach06:53 Three Practice Challenges08:31 Wrap Up And Next Episode