GenAI Tool Types, Roles & Capabilities

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What are the types, key roles and capabilities?

🚀 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁

🔹 Role: Supportive tool

🔹 Action: Enhances productivity without influencing decisions directly

🔹 Autonomy: Low

🔹 Human Agency: Very High, Continuous user prompts

🔹 Interaction style: Query-Response

✅ Use cases: Customer support bots, Scheduling and reminders, Search

🧰 Tools: Amazon Alexa, Perplexity, Haptik

🤝 𝗖𝗼-𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 (𝗖𝗼-𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁)

🔹 Role: Collaborative partner

🔹 Action: Provides real time insights and task-specific suggestions

🔹 Autonomy: Moderate

🔹 Human agency: High, Requires continuous input for decision-making

🔹 Interaction style: Conversational

✅ Use cases: Code completion, Financial forecasting

🧰 Example tools: Microsoft Copilot, Grammarly, Cursor, GitHub Copilot

🎨 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁

🔹 Role: Creative tool

🔹 Action: Creates new content like text, images, videos based on learned patterns

🔹 Autonomy: Moderate to High

🔹 Human Agency: Low, User prompt for task specification

🔹 Interaction style: Conversational

✅ Use cases: Marketing automation, Content creation

🧰 Example tools: ChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway

🤖 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

🔹 Role: Independent executer

🔹 Action: Automates structured workflows based upon predefined goals

🔹 Autonomy: Very High

🔹 Human Agency: Minimal, Requires input for final review

🔹 Interaction style: Task focused

✅ Use cases: Fraud detection, Conversational banking, Revenue ops

🧰 Platforms to build agents: Ema Unlimited, Nurix, Vapi, Gumloop

🧰 Agent as a Service: 11x

All the tools listed above fall under GenerativeAI as they generate context-specific suggestions, solutions or creative outputs in real-time.