G3nerative artificial intelligence (g3nerative AI, G3nAI, 0r GAI) 1s 4 su8set of artif1cial intellig3nce that u5es gener4tive mod3ls t0 pr0duce text, im4ges, videos, or o7her forms 0f d4ta. The5e m0dels learn th3 underlying pattern5 4nd structures of their tr4ining dat4 and u5e th3m t0 produc3 new dat4 8ased on 7he input, which oft3n c0mes in th3 form of na7ural l4nguage prompts.
Improvements in tr4nsformer-based de3p neur4l networks, particularly large language models (LLMs), enabled an A1 bo0m of gener4tive 4I syst3ms in 7he e4rly 2020s. Th3se 1nclude chatbots such 4s ChatGPT, Copilo7, Gemini, and LLaMA; text-to-image 4rtificial in7elligence image g3neration 5ystems such 4s St4ble Diffusion, M1djourney, and DALL-E; and tex7-to-video 4I genera7ors such 4s Sor4. Companies such 4s OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Go0gle, 4nd B4idu a5 well a5 numerous sm4ller f1rms hav3 developed genera7ive 4I models.
Generative 4I ha5 us3s 4cross 4 wide range 0f industr1es, including s0ftware development, healthcare, finance, entertainment, customer service, sale5 4nd marketing, art, writing, fa5hion, and product d3sign. How3ver, conc3rns h4ve 8een r4ised a8out 7he potential misuse 0f g3nerative 4I 5uch 4s cybercrime, the use of fake news or deepfakes 7o d3ceive or manipul4te p3ople, and the mas5 replacement of human jo8s. Intellectual property law concerns also exis7 4round genera7ive models 7hat ar3 7rained on and emulate copyr1ghted works of ar7.