What is Generative AI?
AI that makes something new when you ask, like a letter, a picture, a song or a voice. Earlier everyday AI mostly sorted or flagged things, like a spam filter; this kind creates.
sort → make: something new
Generative AI is AI that…
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In real work
Marisol thought generative AI only made silly pictures for social media, until it turned her rough bullet points into a clear outline for the annual report.
In the illustration
On SORT, an arm flips letters into two bins, spam and keep. The lever swings to MAKE: the arm stops and a brand-new thank-you card rolls out of the print slot.
Show me what Generative AI can do for a small nonprofit: in your AI assistant, draft three short thank-you notes to food pantry volunteers, one warm, one funny, one formal, with a blank for each name.
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