Generative AI

Generative AI is the group of artificial intelligence ✕ Artificial intelligence is a computer system’s ability to perform tasks we associate with human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognizing images or making decisions. More in the glossary → systems able to create new content —text, images, music, video or code— from a prompt ✕ A prompt is the instruction or question you give an AI to get a response. The clearer and more specific it is, the better the result tends to be. More in the glossary → , rather than just classifying or analyzing existing data. It learns the patterns of huge sets of examples and then produces original results that follow those patterns: writing an email, drawing an illustration or composing a melody. Language models like ChatGPT ✕ GPT is the family of large language models from OpenAI behind ChatGPT. It generates text by predicting, unit by unit, the most likely continuation. More in the glossary → and image generators are its best-known examples. It is a very powerful tool for speeding up creative and writing tasks, but it raises questions about copyright, truthfulness and misuse, such as deepfakes ✕ A deepfake is a fake video, audio or image created with AI that realistically imitates a real person. It is used to spread disinformation and to scam. More in the glossary → . It is best used as an assistant that proposes and accelerates, always reviewing the result.