What Is Generative AI?

Lesson goals

• Prediction versus generation
• Text, image, audio, and code
• Statistical creativity and limits

Core idea

Systems that learn data distributions to create new content.

1. Prediction versus generation: understand it in context, identify inputs and outputs, and define how the result will be verified.

2. Text, image, audio, and code: understand it in context, identify inputs and outputs, and define how the result will be verified.

3. Statistical creativity and limits: understand it in context, identify inputs and outputs, and define how the result will be verified.

Practical example

Consider a real application of “What Is Generative AI?.” Start small, identify available data, and compare the system with a clear baseline before expanding it.

Check your understanding

1. Explain “What Is Generative AI?” in your own words.
2. Give one appropriate and one misleading application.
3. What risk or limitation should be monitored?