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Generative artificial intelligence

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Generative artificial intelligence or generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that is designed to create new things. This can include writing words, creating pictures, videos, and music.[1] A generative AI model learns how to do this by studying large amounts of example information (called data) that is given to it in a process called "training". This process lets it create new things that are similar to the information it studied.[2][3] ChatGPT is one famous type of generative AI.[4]

Generative AI's are not alive and can not think for themselves like a person, but the text and videos they create can sometimes trick people into thinking that the AI is alive.[5][6]

References

  1. "Generative AI vs. other AI types". Microsoft AI. Microsoft. Retrieved May 31, 2025.
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  3. "Explained: Generative AI". MIT.
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  5. "No, Today's AI Isn't Sentient. Here's How We Know". Time. Archived from the original on 2024-08-22. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
  6. Metz, Cade (February 15, 2024). "OpenAI Unveils A.I. That Instantly Generates Eye-Popping Videos". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 15, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024.