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What is generative AI?

Short answer

AI that creates new content, such as text, images, music or code, rather than only sorting or predicting labels. Chatbots and image generators are examples.

For example

Asking a chatbot to draft a birthday poem or an image generator to paint "a fox reading in bed, watercolour" are uses of generative AI.

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What is generative AI in simple terms?

AI that creates new content, such as text, images, music or code, rather than only sorting or predicting labels. Chatbots and image generators are examples.

What is an example of generative AI?

Asking a chatbot to draft a birthday poem or an image generator to paint "a fox reading in bed, watercolour" are uses of generative AI.

Where can I learn about generative AI for free?

AI in Bed explains it in the free lesson "Spotting AI fakes" (Beginner level, 5 minutes), with no sign-up.