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Artificial intelligence and data-mining systems often use "training data sets" and "test data sets." Define these terms and describe briefly how these data sets are used.

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Training data sets are given to systems initially to teach them to make correct responses. Test data sets are equivalent to the training sets but contain separate data and are used to verify the performance of the systems.

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