Classical AI vs Generative AI
Technical comparison between classical AI and generative AI: inputs, outputs, determinism, explainability, and when to use rules, ML, LLMs, RAG, or agents.
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Video summary
The ideas to retain
1. The five differences
1.1 Inputs and outputs
The most obvious difference is what goes in and what comes out.
1.2 Determinism
At inference time, with a fixed model and pipeline, classical ML is much more reproducible than generative AI: given the same input it usually produces the same output and behaves stably.…


