Emerging Applications in Generative AI

In the preceding chapters, we have examined a large number of applications using generative AI, from generating pictures and text to even music. However, this is a large and ever-expanding field; the number of publications on Google Scholar matching a search for "generative adversarial networks" is 27,200, of which 16,200 were published in 2020! This is astonishing for a field that essentially started in 2014, the exponential growth of which can also be appreciated on the Google n-gram viewer (Figure 13.1):

Figure 13.1: Google n-gram of "generative adversarial networks"

As we saw in this volume, generative adversarial networks are only one class of models in the broader field of generative AI, which also includes models such as variational autoencoders, BERT, and GPT-3. As a single book cannot hope to cover all of these areas, we conclude this volume with discussion of a number of emerging topics in this field...