AI, ML, DL, Gen AI. What's the difference?

4 circles explain it all

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AI

Any machine doing something that looks smart. The biggest circle.

Machine learning

Instead of writing rules, it learns patterns from examples.

Deep learning

Machine learning with many-layered neural networks.

Generative AI

Deep learning that creates new text, images or code.

The mistake

Thinking Gen AI is separate from ML. It sits inside it, as the smallest circle.

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Cheat sheet

• AI: smart machines
• ML: learns from data
• DL: deep neural networks
• Gen AI: creates new content
• Each circle sits inside the last

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