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AI & Machine Learning · Foundational

Generative AI (GenAI)

AI that creates new content such as text, images, code, audio or video based on patterns learned from training data.

Definition

Generative AI models learn the distribution of their training data and sample from it to produce novel outputs in response to prompts. Large language models, diffusion models and GANs are common generative architectures. Unlike discriminative models, which classify or predict labels, generative models produce content.

Example

Asking a model to draft a marketing email or generate a product image are generative AI tasks.

Exam tip

Distinguish generative (creates content) from discriminative/predictive (classifies or forecasts) use cases.

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