AI Enablement playbook/Module 1 · AI foundations

Day 05 / 100 · AI foundations · Types of AI models

Not all AI is a chatbot.

“AI” covers several families of tools. Knowing which is which stops you forcing the wrong one onto a problem.

Language models

Text In, Text Out

Drafting, summarising, Q&A, rewriting. The ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot family.

Predictive models

Scores From Your Data

Churn, fraud, demand forecasts. Often already inside your CRM, billing or accounting tools.

Speech & vision

Hear And See

Transcribe calls, read invoices and IDs, spot objects in images.

Generative media

Make Images, Audio, Video

Marketing visuals and voice-overs. Also the engine behind deepfakes.

Source: arXiv ↗

Match the model to the job.