Generative artificial intelligence (AI) refers to a category of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that generate new outputs based on the data they have been trained on.
- Generative AI learns how to take actions from past data.
- It creates brand new content – a text, an image, even computer code – based on that training, instead of simply categorizing or identifying data like other AI.
- The most famous generative AI application is ChatGPT, a chatbot that Microsoft-backed OpenAI released late last year.
- The AI powering it is known as a large language model because it takes in a text prompt and from that writes a human-like response.
- GPT-4, a newer model that OpenAI announced recently, is “multimodal” because it can perceive not only text but images as well.
- OpenAI demonstrated how it could take a photo of a hand-drawn mock-up for a website he wanted to build, and from that generate a real one.
- Generative AI likewise can take notes during a virtual meeting. It can draft and personalize emails, and it can create slide presentations.
- Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos.
