AI for students · lesson 5 of 24 · free

Generative AI: making new text and images — AI for students

Generative AI makes something new from a prompt (your request): an AI chatbot writes text by predicting likely words, and an image generator draws a new picture from a description. Other AI only sorts, spots or predicts — like a spam filter. Generated work can look great and still contain mistakes, so it always needs checking.

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AI tip

Makes, not just sorts — “generative AI creates something new; other AI sorts, spots or predicts”

  1. Generative AI makes something new: a poem, a story, a picture, a tune, quiz questions, a draft letter.
  2. Other AI sorts, spots or predicts: spotting spam, unlocking with a face, predicting rain, suggesting a video.
  3. The output can be text, an image, or music and sound — and it can be wrong, so check it.

Use it for: Using an AI chatbot or an image generator for a school project — with permission and checking.

Worked example: ✨ Generative or not: writing a new poem? → makes something new

  1. A new poem did not exist before — the AI made it.
  2. Making something new is generative AI.

Check: Try it: write one request for text, one for an image and one for music, on paper, for a class project on rivers ✓

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Work it out in your head or on paper, type the answer and press Check. Stuck? Press “Show me how”.

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20 questions. Check each answer, then go to the next one. Get 16 or more right to pass.

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