According to IBM, Generative AI, often referred to as Gen AI, are "deep learning models that can create complex original content such as long-form text, high-quality images, realistic video or audio and more in response to a user's prompt or request."
Generative AI is behind chatbot assistants like ChatGPT as well as the creation of deepfakes--convincing image-based, audio, and video hoaxes.
Launched in 2022 by the AI research company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses Generative AI to create human-like conversational dialogue. The "GPT" stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer" in reference to how ChatGPT processes requests and formulates responses.
ChatGPT is trained with reinforcement learning through human feedback and reward models that rank the best responses. This feedback helps augment ChatGPT with machine learning to improve future responses. The language model can respond to questions and compose various written content, including articles, social media posts, essays, code, and emails.
According to IBM, "generative models have been used for years in statistics to analyze numerical data. But over the last decade, they evolved to analyze and generate more complex data types. This evolution coincided with the emergence of three sophisticated deep learning model types:
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