LLMs, NLP, GANs and how they relate to machine learning and generative AI

Just as “AI” is an umbrella term, “generative AI” follows suit. As you might have inferred from the its naming, generative AI is an area of AI that’s all about generating new content whether that’s text, an image or even code. The machine learning models that power generative AI are creating outputs that closely resemble the training data they learn from.

When you think of generative AI, I want you to primarily think of advanced deep learning models that are grouped into two categories: GANs and large language models (LLMs). GANs are adversarial neural networks that are primarily used for image generation. You can think of them as two neural networks fighting each other for the “best” or “most correct” image. LLMs are neural networks that have been trained on terabytes of data. So much data, in fact, that it’s almost prohibitively expensive...