LEARN · Week 1 · Foundations

What Is Generative AI?

Search retrieves answers that already exist; generative AI thinks through problems with you, and the mindset shifts from "what's the answer?" to "help me think through this." We pin down the vocabulary, AI to machine learning to LLM to ChatGPT, then meet the tool we use throughout this course: the Claude desktop app,…

After this lesson

You can explain how generative AI differs from a search engine.
You know the vocabulary from AI all the way down to chat systems.
You have the desktop chat app installed and ready for class.

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