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Start before LLMs. Understand where AI, ML and neural networks fit.
Generative AI
Also called GenAI
Generative AI creates new content such as text, images, audio, code or structured data from learned patterns.
Think of it like
Think of Generative AI as one layer in a very large toolbox: you only need to understand what job that layer performs.
Real life
A phone spam filter, recommendation engine, fraud detector or voice assistant may use Generative AI somewhere inside.
SRE lens
An incident assistant can generate a timeline or postmortem draft from evidence.
Remember thisGenerative AI creates new content such as text, images, audio, code or structured data from learned patterns.