What is generative AI?
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- Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a type of computer application that generates output. This output can be text, images, sound, and more.
- Generative AI is trained on sources like books, articles, and webpages. It generates new output (text, images, sound) based on the information from those sources.
- ChatGPT is a generative AI tool. It is a chatbot that produces text in response to prompts. Prompts can take the form of questions, requests, and more.
- For example: if you prompted ChatGPT with the request "Summarize the relationship between childhood trauma and mental health", ChatGPT would produce a text summarizing that relationship.
- Other examples of AI chatbots include Grammarly Go, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Quillbot Co-Writer.
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