ELI5: generative ai
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What is generative AI?
Generative AI is like a super-smart copycat that learns by looking at lots of examples [1][2]. Just like you learn to draw by copying pictures you've seen, generative AI learns patterns from tons of data and can create brand new things [3][4].
Why can it create new things?
Generative AI isn't just memorizing—it understands the patterns in what it learned [4][5]. It's like learning the rules of drawing so well that you can draw pictures you've never actually seen before [1].
What can it create?
It can make text (like stories or answers), pictures, videos, sounds, and even computer code [2][3]. Each time you ask it to create something, it makes something new based on what you asked for [1].
How does it learn?
You show it thousands and thousands of examples of things (like pictures or sentences), and it figures out the patterns [5]. Once it knows the patterns, it can remix those ideas into completely original creations [3][4].
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Generative AI creates new content, like text or images, based on patterns in data. Large Language Models (LLMs) are a powerful form of this AI, generating ...
Generative artificial intelligence, also known as generative AI or GenAI, is a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to generate text, ...
Generative AI, sometimes called gen AI, is artificial intelligence (AI) that can create original content such as text, images, video, audio or software code ...
Nov 9, 2023 ... Generative AI can be thought of as a machine-learning model that is trained to create new data, rather than making a prediction about a specific dataset.
Apr 20, 2023 ... Generative AI refers to deep-learning models that can generate high-quality text, images, and other content based on the data they were trained on.
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