AI Foundations

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

AI is the broad field.

✳ Beginner◷ 3 short lessons · learn at your paceTEXT-BASED LEARNING

Before you dive in: outcomes & prerequisites

No AI experience required. Start with the simple explanation.

A beginner learning path: understand the idea, follow an everyday example and check your understanding. Read the three lessons in order.

Start here · beginner

03 · Practise and check

Your turn

Classify four fictional systems: fixed game rules, learned price predictor, neural image classifier and text generator. Explain overlaps.

Answer check

A numeric price predictor is predictive ML. A text generator produces content and often uses deep learning. Do not draw GenAI as a category completely separate from ML or claim all AI must be generative.

Explain it to a friend

Give a second example from college, a hobby or a fictional workplace. State what information goes in, what comes out and one limitation. If you can explain those three things in plain language, you are ready to move on. Mark this lesson as read to save your progress when signed in.

← Previous