AI is not just one technology. Rather, it is an entire field of study in the same way that something like physics is.

Similarly, while physics has numerous branches or subfields – such as thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics – so too does AI:

• Machine learning (ML), for instance, is a subfield that lies at the core of AI.
• Dig down a bit further and you’ll discover deep learning (DL), which is a subfield of ML.
• DL, in turn, serves as the foundation on which many generative AI models are built.

In essence, each concept or technology builds upon the previous one.