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throwawayk7htoday at 4:20 AM1 replyview on HN

> "Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence,” he said.

No, gen AI is a subset of machine learning.


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eschatontoday at 5:08 AM

AI is the field. Machine learning is one of many specializations within the field. “Generative AI” is the colloquial term for using various machine learning models to generate text, images, video, code, etc.; that is, it’s a subfield of machine learning.

Other subfields of AI include things like search, speech and language understanding, knowledge representation, and so on. There’s a lot more to AI than machine learning and a lot more to machine learning than LLMs (“gen AI”).