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What is the difference between AI, ML, deep learning and GenAI?

AI is the broad field.

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01 · Understand the idea

In simple words

AI is the broad field. Machine learning is a family of methods within it that learn from data. Deep learning is a family of ML methods using multilayer neural networks. Generative AI describes systems that produce content; it overlaps with these methods rather than being a separate rung after deep learning.

Words to know

Predictive task: estimating an outcome. Generative task: producing content such as text or images.

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