AI that produces new content such as code, text, audio or images in response to a prompt. Predicting a class or a numeric value is predictive machine learning rather than generative AI.
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- ML
Building models that infer patterns from data so they can predict outcomes, for instance through regression or classification, using tools like Azure Machine Learning or Synapse Spark pools. Predictive ML is distinct from generative AI.
Related terms
- AI bill of materials
Catalogue compiled by AI security posture management in Defender CSPM listing what a generative AI app is built from, including its models, SDKs and data sources.
- AI security posture management
Part of Defender CSPM, absent from Foundational CSPM, that finds generative AI workloads, compiles an AI bill of materials and highlights AI-specific recommendations and attack paths.
- Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools
Foundry Tool whose generative AI analyzers turn documents, images, audio and video into structured fields by extracting, classifying or generating values.
- Conversational AI
Workload in which software holds a back-and-forth exchange, understanding questions and answering them, as chat bots and generative AI chat apps and agents do.
- Copilot in Power BI
Power BI's generative AI helper: ask in plain language and it can write DAX, build report pages or summarise a report. Trials aren't enough; you need paid capacity, meaning Fabric F2 or above, or Power BI Premium P1 or above.
- Metaprompt and grounding mitigation layer
Layer of generative AI mitigation at the application level, in which grounding data and the system message guide the model away from output that is ungrounded or harmful.
- Microsoft Defender for AI Services
Plan within Defender for Cloud that uses threat intelligence and Prompt Shields to alert in real time when generative AI applications come under attack.
- Microsoft Foundry project
Boundary for development within a Foundry resource, where teams build and evaluate generative AI apps and agents.