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What is Generative AI and how is it different from AI?

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the intelligence of machines or software. We’ll leave it at this and cover more significant questions, like whether machines can have intelligence, in the future.
AI has many disciplines within it, including…
Generative artificial intelligence is AI capable of generating text, images, or other media in response to prompts. Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data by applying neural network machine learning techniques and then generate new data with similar characteristics.
The BBC wrote a great piece on AI from A to Z.