Generative AI
In plain terms
AI that creates new content like text, images, or audio.
Going deeper
Generative AI learns data patterns to produce novel outputs, text, images, code, or sound, rather than just classifying. It creates rather than categorizes.
Under the hood
Built on transformers, diffusion, and GANs; raises quality, originality, and misuse considerations.
Examples
ChatGPT, image generators, music AI, code generation, Claude.
Think of it like...
Like an artist who, having studied many works, paints entirely new ones.