Lesson 5 · Module 1

Generative AI — ChatGPT, Images, Music, and More

Generative AI creates new content — text, images, music, code — and has captured the world's attention.

Unlike traditional AI that classifies or predicts, generative AI produces original outputs. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT predict the next word in sequences. Diffusion models create images from noise.

Strengths: amazing creativity, productivity boost, education help. Limitations: can hallucinate facts, copy biases from training data, and raise copyright questions.

Good prompting (clear instructions) improves results dramatically. Generative AI is a powerful collaborator, not a replacement for human judgment.