The most popular classification models have generative AI being a subset of machine learning, and machine learning being a subset of AI. While this may technically and architecturally be the correct way to think about these tools, it has led to significant confusion.
Let’s take a look at machine learning and generative AI in marketing.
Considering Machine Learning and Generative AI in Marketing
First, because of our natural tendency to drop words to simplify and economize our language, this has led to many people referring to generative AI simply as AI. Muddling things further, because generative AI and machine learning are both lumped under AI as a big umbrella, all of these terms are being used somewhat interchangeably.