What is AI , Generative AI , AI Agent , Agentic AI

AI: Computer that thinks and learns (like spam filter, face recognition)

Examples:

• Netflix/YouTube recommendations - suggests what to watch based on your history
• Gmail spam filter - automatically sorts spam emails
• Google Maps navigation - calculates best routes, predicts traffic
• Face unlock on phones - recognizes your face to unlock
• Siri/Alexa voice assistants - understands and responds to voice commands
• Autocorrect on keyboard - fixes spelling mistakes as you type
• Credit card fraud detection - flags suspicious transactions
• Amazon product recommendations - "customers who bought this also bought..."
• Instagram/TikTok feed algorithm - shows posts you'll likely engage with
• Smart home thermostats - learns your temperature preferences
• Google Lens - recognizes objects, text, plants through camera
• Duolingo - adaptive language learning
• Google Search - smart search results and autocomplete
• LinkedIn - job and connection recommendations

Gen AI: AI that creates new things (writes text, makes images, generates code)

Examples:

   Content creation

ChatGPT/Claude - writes essays, code, emails, stories

DALL-E/Midjourney - creates images from text descriptions ("a cat riding a skateboard")

GitHub Copilot - generates code as you type

Jasper/Copy.ai - writes marketing copy, blog posts

Runway/Pika - generates videos from text prompts

ElevenLabs - creates realistic voice clones and speech

Suno/Udio - generates original music and songs

Adobe Firefly - creates and edits images in Photoshop

Grammarly AI - rewrites and improves your writing

Notion AI - generates meeting notes, summaries, content

Key Difference: AI tools analyze/predict, Gen AI tools create from scratch!

AI Agent: AI that does tasks for you automatically (books flights, answers customer questions  , pre defined workflows - single goal/target(Needs clear instructions))

Agentic AI: Super-smart AI that plans and completes complex multi-step projects on its own (researches topic, writes report, sends emails , planning trips - all without asking)

Blue Brain 🧠 = AI (thinking)

Purple Sparkles ✨ = Gen AI (creating)

Green Robot 🤖 = AI Agent (doing tasks)

Orange Lightning ⚡ = Agentic AI (powerful, complex actions)