From the course: Introduction to Gemini for Google Workspace

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What is generative AI?

What is generative AI?

- [Instructor] Gemini for Workspace uses generative AI to help you work more efficiently across the Google Workspace apps. But what is generative AI? First, let's define AI. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a set of technologies that enable computers to perform various advanced functions. Examples include the ability to see, understand, and translate spoken and written language, analyze data, and make recommendations. Generative AI is a subset of AI that refers to the use of AI to create new content like text, images, audio, and video. To use generative AI, you provide a prompt to the system, and it generates a response based on what you gave it. A prompt is a piece of information that is provided to a user or system to initiate or guide a process. It can be a question, statement, or set of instructions. The system takes your prompt and uses it to generate an output, such as text, images, audio, or video. The type of output that is generated depends on what your prompt requests and…

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