generative AI

noun

variants or less commonly generative artificial intelligence

: artificial intelligence (see artificial intelligence sense 2) that is capable of generating new content (such as images or text) in response to a submitted prompt (such as a query) by learning from a large reference database of examples

Generative AI is a computer tool that can create text that sounds like it was written by a human, based on a given starting point.

—Stephanie Sylvestre

In a departure from previous efforts, Therabot is powered by generative artificial intelligence, meaning it can use existing data and documentation to develop original actions and responses. Another example of generative AI is DALL-E 2, the popular program that can create images from user prompts.

—Sarah Sloat

Publishers hire armies of journalists to produce content. … These publishers will soon leverage generative AI to instantly create thousands of SEO-optimized articles …

—Lloyd Danzig

Examples of generative AI in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Education Commissioner Deena Bishop admitted to using generative AI to draft the resolution, the Alaska Beacon reports. —Emily Dreibelbis Forlini, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024

Read Article > In 2020, when Joe Biden won the White House, generative AI still looked like a pointless toy, not a world-changing new technology. —Vox Staff, Vox, 6 Nov. 2024

Any answer produced by generative AI deserves your best kind of scrutiny. —Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

Zoom in: Each Big Tech giant is building generative AI models, and many of them are using their customer data, in part, to train them. —Ina Fried, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

2012, in the meaning defined above