I don’t think the distinction between “generative” vs deep is a super defensible/technical one - compared to the normal distinction made between classical & dee

I don’t think the distinction between “generative” vs deep is a super defensible/technical one - compared to the normal distinction made between classical & deep - where deep is about high parameter multilayer networks (around since 2016) and classical refers to linear models and tree based models preceding them. There is a classic distinction between generative and discriminative models but it does not fully map on to what people mean when they say “generative” nowadays