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Generative AI can produce various content like text, images, audio and data. Recent advances like transformers and large language models have enabled generative AI to create engaging text, photorealistic images and videos. While still early, generative AI may fundamentally change businesses by helping write code, design drugs and transform supply chains.

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Generative AI

Generative AI can produce various content like text, images, audio and data. Recent advances like transformers and large language models have enabled generative AI to create engaging text, photorealistic images and videos. While still early, generative AI may fundamentally change businesses by helping write code, design drugs and transform supply chains.

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Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence technology that can produce

various types of content, including text, imagery, audio and synthetic data.
The recent buzz around generative AI has been driven by the simplicity of
new user interfaces for creating high-quality text, graphics and videos in a
matter of seconds.

The technology, it should be noted, is not brand-new. Generative AI was


introduced in the 1960s in chatbots. But it was not until 2014, with the
introduction of generative adversarial networks, or GANs -- a type of
machine learning algorithm -- that generative AI could create convincingly
authentic images, videos and audio of real people.

On the one hand, this newfound capability has opened up opportunities


that include better movie dubbing and rich educational content. It also
unlocked concerns about deepfakes -- digitally forged images or videos --
and harmful cybersecurity attacks on businesses, including nefarious
requests that realistically mimic an employee's boss.

Two additional recent advances that will be discussed in more detail below
have played a critical part in generative AI going mainstream: transformers
and the breakthrough language models they enabled. Transformers are a
type of machine learning that made it possible for researchers to train ever-
larger models without having to label all of the data in advance. New
models could thus be trained on billions of pages of text, resulting in
answers with more depth. In addition, transformers unlocked a new notion
called attention that enabled models to track the connections between
words across pages, chapters and books rather than just in individual
sentences. And not just words: Transformers could also use their ability to
track connections to analyze code, proteins, chemicals and DNA.

The rapid advances in so-called large language models (LLMs) -- i.e.,


models with billions or even trillions of parameters -- have opened a new
era in which generative AI models can write engaging text, paint
photorealistic images and even create somewhat entertaining sitcoms on
the fly. Moreover, innovations in multimodal AI enable teams to generate
content across multiple types of media, including text, graphics and video.
This is the basis for tools like Dall-E that automatically create images from
a text description or generate text captions from images.

These breakthroughs notwithstanding, we are still in the early days of using


generative AI to create readable text and photorealistic stylized graphics.
Early implementations have had issues with accuracy and bias, as well as
being prone to hallucinations and spitting back weird answers. Still,
progress thus far indicates that the inherent capabilities of this generative
AI could fundamentally change enterprise technology how businesses
operate. Going forward, this technology could help write code, design new
drugs, develop products, redesign business processes and transform
supply chains.

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