AI glossary / The basics

Generative AI

The basics, also called GenAI, one of the 17 words to learn first

AI that creates new things, such as text, images, music, video or code, rather than only sorting or analysing what already exists.

More words in The basics

• Large language modelAn AI trained on enormous amounts of text so it can read and write like a person. It works by predicting which words should come next.
• Machine learningTeaching computers by showing them lots of examples rather than writing out every rule by hand.
• ModelThe trained brain of an AI system. It's the result of all the learning and the thing that produces answers.
• MultimodalAn AI that handles more than one kind of input or output, such as text, images, audio and video, not just words.
• Narrow AIAI built for one job, such as filtering spam or recommending films. Every AI in use today is narrow to some degree.