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Generative AI

n. Models 2023

AI that creates new content (text, images, audio, video, code) based on patterns learned from training data, as opposed to AI that only sorts or predicts. Often shortened to GenAI.

“We use generative AI for first drafts of product descriptions.”

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In the history of AI

One of the Essentials

Generative AI is one of 20 Essential terms: the words you need to follow a news story or a work meeting about AI. It entered common use around 2023.