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Generative AI

Also called GenAI

What does “Generative AI” mean?

Generative AI: Systems that create new content, such as text, images, audio, video or code, rather than only classifying or sorting existing data. They learn patterns from huge numbers of examples and produce fresh outputs that follow those patterns.

Generative AI visual guide: Systems that create new content, such as text, images, audio, video or code, rather than only classifying or sorting existing data. They learn patterns from huge numbers of examples and produce fresh outputs that follow those patterns.
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What is an example of “Generative AI”?

Asking a chatbot to draft an email or an image tool to make a picture from a description are both uses of generative AI.

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