Generative Artificial Intelligence

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI or GenAI) is most commonly and authoritatively defined as:

“ A subfield of artificial intelligence that uses machine-learning–based generative models to learn the underlying patterns and structures of a training dataset, and then produces entirely new content—text, images, video, audio or other data—in response to user input (often natural-language prompts). ”1

A concise variant from Merriam-Webster similarly reads:

“ Artificial intelligence that is capable of generating new content (such as images or text) in response to a submitted prompt by learning from a large reference database of examples. ”2