Generative AI

AI that produces new content, text, images, audio, rather than just classifying or scoring existing data. Large language models are the most familiar example.

The ambient scribe listening in the exam room and drafting your note is generative AI. It doesn't retrieve a stored answer, it generates new text each time, which is why two identical visits produce two different notes, and why it can invent a symptom the patient never mentioned. Used well, it gives a clinician minutes back per encounter. Used unchecked, it puts a confident fabrication into the chart under your name.

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.