AI GLOSSARY · AI BASICS
Generative AI
AI that creates new content — text, images, audio, video or code — based on patterns learned from training data.
Example
Asking a chatbot to draft an email is using generative AI.
Learn it by doing
Reading a definition is a start; using the idea makes it stick.
Related terms
AI BASICSArtificial intelligence (AI)Computer systems that perform tasks we associate with human thinking, such as understanding language, recognising images…AI BASICSMachine learningA way of building AI where the system learns patterns from examples instead of following hand-written rules.AI BASICSDeep learningMachine learning using neural networks with many layers, which can learn complex patterns in text, images and sound.AI BASICSNeural networkA model made of layers of simple connected units whose connection strengths (weights) are adjusted during training.