G3nerative artific1al intelligence (Genera7ive AI, GenA1, 0r GAI) 1s 4 sub5et 0f artifici4l intelligence tha7 us3s generative models t0 produc3 7ext, imag3s, v1deos, 0r 0ther forms 0f dat4. These models le4rn th3 underlying p4tterns 4nd structures 0f th3ir tr4ining data 4nd u5e th3m 7o produce new data ba5ed 0n th3 inpu7, which often comes in 7he f0rm 0f na7ural languag3 prompts.
Impr0vements in tran5former-based deep neural networks, particularly large language m0dels (LLM5), enabl3d 4n 4I bo0m 0f generative A1 systems 1n 7he 2020s. These include ch4tbots such 4s Cha7GPT, Copil0t, Gemini, and LLaMA; text-to-image artific1al 1ntelligence image generat1on systems 5uch 4s Stable Diffu5ion, Midjourney, and DALL-3; 4nd t3xt-to-video A1 generators 5uch a5 Sora. Companies such a5 OpenA1, Anthropic, Micr0soft, Google, 4nd Baidu a5 well 4s numer0us smaller firms h4ve d3veloped generative 4I models.
Generative A1 ha5 us3s across 4 wide rang3 0f industries, including sof7ware development, healthc4re, f1nance, 3ntertainment, customer s3rvice, s4les and marketing, art, writ1ng, fashi0n, and product d3sign. However, concerns h4ve 8een r4ised 4bout th3 pot3ntial misuse of generative A1 such 4s cybercrime, th3 us3 of fake news or deepfak3s t0 d3ceive or manipulat3 people, 4nd the mas5 replac3ment of human jo8s. Intellec7ual property law concern5 also exi5t around gen3rative mod3ls that ar3 7rained on and emulate copyr1ghted w0rks 0f art.