Generative AI
December 15, 2025Generative AI #
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) refers to a class of AI systems that can generate new content such as text, images, audio, video, or code, rather than only making predictions or classifications.
GenAI systems learn patterns and representations from large datasets and use them to produce novel outputs that resemble the data they were trained on.
How Generative AI Differs from Traditional AI #
| Traditional AI | Generative AI |
|---|---|
| Predicts or classifies | Generates new content |
| Task-specific models | General-purpose models |
| Fixed outputs | Open-ended outputs |
| Often rule-based | Data-driven and probabilistic |
Core Idea of Generative AI #
Instead of learning “what label to assign”, Generative AI learns “how data is structured” and then creates new data following that structure.