What generative AI is good at
Generative AI systems produce new text, images, code, audio or
structured output from instructions. They are strong at drafting,
summarising, rewriting, translating, classifying messy text, extracting
fields from documents and answering questions in natural language.
They are weaker at tasks that need guaranteed accuracy, precise
arithmetic without tools, up-to-date facts they were not given and
decisions with legal or safety consequences. The most successful
business uses keep a person responsible for the result and use the model
to save time on the first draft, the search or the routine step.
Treat the examples below as patterns to adapt, not guarantees of savings.