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A post-pretraining phase that teaches a base model to follow instructions. The training data is pairs of instructions and high-quality responses, often written or curated by humans. Instruction tuning is what turns a model that completes text into a model that answers questions and follows directions.
Every commercial chat assistant ships an instruction-tuned model. Knowing where the assistant's personality and refusal behavior come from is foundational for AI PM and AI safety roles.
A post-pretraining phase that teaches a base model to follow instructions. The training data is pairs of instructions and high-quality responses, often written or curated by humans. Instruction tuning is what turns a model that completes text into a model that answers questions and follows directions.
Every commercial chat assistant ships an instruction-tuned model. Knowing where the assistant's personality and refusal behavior come from is foundational for AI PM and AI safety roles.
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