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Generative AI

Also called: GenAI

Models that produce new content — text, images, audio, video, code — rather than only classifying or scoring existing content.

Generative AI learns the shape of its training data well enough to sample new examples from it. The output is novel in the sense that it did not exist before, and derivative in the sense that it comes from patterns in the data. This is the category that took AI from a back-office tool to something everyone uses directly.

In practice: Asking a model for a first draft of a launch email and getting one in four seconds.

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