A harbor-master office hears three vendor pitches: one labels incoming forms as berth request, complaint, or inspection; one forecasts next month’s slip occupancy from ten years of counts; one drafts plain-language welcome notes from the lease text. How should a leader label those pitches?

Short Explanation

Three different jobs, three different families. Labeling a form is classification, forecasting slip occupancy is prediction, and drafting a welcome note is generation. Calling every pitch “AI” hides the choice, and a forecast or a labeler is not a writer.

Full Explanation

Leaders match the job to the family: labeling existing records is classification, forecasting a number is prediction, and drafting new language is generation. Calling every pitch “AI” hides the choice. A forecast or a labeler is not a writer, and a writer is not a volume model.

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