Learn in the textbookTypes of AI and Their Basic Capabilities
DefinitionGenerative AI (生成AI) is AI that learns in advance from large amounts of data and then creates new content such as text, images or audio in response to instructions.
ExplanationThe instruction is called a prompt, and it can be written in everyday language (natural language). Because the content it produces is based on patterns in the data it learned from, false information that looks true can slip in, so a person should check the output before using it.
AnalogyIt is like a writer who has read a great many books composing a fresh piece on a requested theme.
Memory hookThe name comes from generate, meaning to produce something new.