Core AI ideas
Inference
Definition
The moment a trained model uses what it learned to answer a new question or make a prediction.
Visual example

Live cooking = inference
The kitchen connection
Think of cooking an order live.
The illustration connects the AI idea to something familiar. Follow the subject, the action, and the result to see how it works.
- 01 · Who or what
- Live cooking = inference
- 02 · What happens
- Uses what training taught
- 03 · The result
- Creates an answer now
Why it matters
It is the moment users actually receive a model's answer.