General-purpose AI

An AI model trained on broad data that can handle many different tasks, like ChatGPT or other large language models. Regulators including the EU AI Act use this term (GPAI) for foundation models. General-purpose AI is broad in capability, but it is still not broad AI or AGI: it does not truly understand or transfer skill across any domain the way a person does. It sits on the narrow side of the narrow-vs-broad split.

Terms like this come up in real clinical scenarios across the HelloAI courses: bite-sized modules with verifiable certificates. An account takes one minute, no password needed.