Introduction to generative AI main concepts

The success of ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has generated a worldwide rise in interest in generative AI. As we can see from the following Google Trends data, interest in generative AI increased significantly after ChatGPT was released in November 2022:

Figure 18.1: Google Trends data for ChatGPT

Let’s take a glance at a high-level overview of what concepts and terminologies are important to learn in this topic. Firstly, generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence in which models are trained to generate new content based on natural language input. The inputs and outputs of these models can include text, images, audio, and other types of data.

Generative AI models use neural networks to identify the patterns and structures within existing data to generate new and original content.

Generative AI applications are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs, like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. Google’...