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Generative artificial intelligence or generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that is designed to create new things. This can include writing words, creating pictures, videos, and music.[1] A generative AI model learns how to do this by studying large amounts of example information (called data) that is given to it in a process called "training". This process lets it create new things that are similar to the information it studied.[2][3] ChatGPT is one famous type of generative AI.[4]

Generative AI's are not alive and can not think for themselves like a person, but the text and videos they create can sometimes trick people into thinking that the AI is alive.[5][6][7]

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  1. ↑ "Generative AI vs. other AI types". Microsoft AI. Microsoft. Retrieved May 31, 2025.
  2. ↑ Pasick, Adam (March 27, 2023). "Artificial Intelligence Glossary: Neural Networks and Other Terms Explained". New York Times. Retrieved May 31, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Explained: Generative AI". MIT.
  4. ↑ "What is generative AI?".
  5. ↑ "No, Today's AI Isn't Sentient. Here's How We Know". Time. Archived from the original on 2024-08-22. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
  6. ↑ Metz, Cade (February 15, 2024). "OpenAI Unveils A.I. That Instantly Generates Eye-Popping Videos". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 15, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
  7. ↑ "What is AI Video Generator?". Retrieved 2024-10-18.
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