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MATTHEW DEDON
The Law Office of Matthew Dedon

A COMPARISON OF U.S. AND CHINESE APPROACHES TO GENERATIVE AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword for the past few years. AI refers to systems that are designed to respond to a particular set of inputs. These systems analyze input data and respond according to the instructions built into the system. Generative-AI (GenAI) is a subset of AI that generates new content output in response to input from a user. GenAI receives prompts and uses its training data and models, frequently consisting of enormous quantities of human-authored works, to ultimately create a wide array of new content output.

A key distinction between the two systems is that traditional AI is primarily used to analyze data and make predictions, while generative AI goes a step further by creating new data similar to its training data. In other words, traditional AI excels at pattern recognition, while GenAI excels at pattern creation.¹