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A prediction interval gives a range in which we're confident a random observation will fall in if we "pluck" it from the population.
A confidence interval gives a range in which we're confident the true population parameter falls in.
When you're plucking an observation at random from a given population, there's way more room for variability / randomness than when you're trying to assess that population's mean.