AI 101

Generative AI

Also known as: gen AI

Basics

Generative AI is AI that creates new content — writing, images, music, code, video — rather than just sorting, predicting, or recognizing.

It’s the wave that put AI in the public eye:

  • Text: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.
  • Images: DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion.
  • Audio/voice: text-to-speech and voice cloning.

Under the hood, most of it is deep learning; the LLM is the most famous generator of text.

Distinguish it: "generative" = makes new stuff. A spam filter is *not* generative — it only decides. That line is the clearest way to tell the two apart.