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Start before LLMs. Understand where AI, ML and neural networks fit.
Prediction
A prediction is the output a model produces for an input.
Think of it like
Think of Prediction as one layer in a very large toolbox: you only need to understand what job that layer performs.
Real life
A phone spam filter, recommendation engine, fraud detector or voice assistant may use Prediction somewhere inside.
SRE lens
An anomaly model may predict “normal” or “abnormal” for a metric window.
Remember thisA prediction is the output a model produces for an input.