What is generative AI? How artificial intelligence creates content

Generative AI is a kind of artificial intelligence that creates new content, including text, images, audio, and video, based on patterns it has learned from existing data. Today’s generative models are typically built on foundation-model architectures such as large-language models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, enabling them to carry on conversations, answer questions, write stories, generate code, and produce images or videos from brief prompts. Generative AI is different from discriminative AI