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Generative AI

What is Generative AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a way to train computers to carry out a range of complex tasks and to learn from these tasks. It uses a process called machine learning to identify patterns in images, texts, and other materials. This process can involve human input or be fully automated. Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence designed to create and produce new content using algorithms to generate images, text, and music. Generative AI models like ChatGPT replicate the structure and style using patterns from data they have been trained on to generate responses.

In order for the computer to generate new material, it needs to: 

  1. Break large amounts of information into machine-readable chunks
  2. Create a model to represent patterns in this information
  3. Use this model to derive new works

NYU Library' Machines and Society guide is a wonderful resource for learning more about Large Language Models as well as an overview of ChatGPT.

Sims Library Resources

Videos

This 15 minute video from Google Cloud Tech provides a more thorough introduction to Large Language Models.

This three hour talk, with questions, by Stephen Wolfram (Founder of Wolfram/Mathematica) was originally streamed on Twitch on February 17, 2023. The talk begins starts at 9:53.

Talk by Raf Alvarado - Associate Professor, UVA School of Data Science, given on May 5, 2023