Dear Rahul Jain ,

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos. Recent breakthroughs in the field have the potential to drastically change the way we approach content creation.

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-generative-ai

Regards,

Shafagat

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content—like text, images, music, or even code—by learning from existing data. It’s like teaching a super-smart computer how to write stories, draw pictures, or compose songs based on patterns it has seen before.

Think of it this way: if you give a child thousands of stories to read, eventually they might start writing their own stories by understanding how plots work, how characters speak, and what makes a story interesting. Generative AI works similarly, but at a much larger and faster scale.

It’s called "generative" because it doesn’t just analyze—it generates something new. Tools like ChatGPT, DALL·E, and others use generative AI to help people write essays, make art, design buildings, or even develop new business ideas.

At its core, generative AI is not magic—it's built on complex algorithms and models that learn from massive amounts of data. But for us humans, it often feels like magic because it can produce creative, useful, and sometimes surprising results.

Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence that leverages machine learning models, particularly deep learning architectures like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Transformer-based models (e.g., GPT, BERT, DALL·E), to autonomously produce content that mimics the complexity, structure, and quality of data created by humans.

• generative AI (like ChatGPT) is an AI that can generate text, and can also remember earlier comments in a conversation
• chatbot is a common term for these generative AI's
• AI dungeon is also known as a generative AI (it is good for generating stories that are funny)