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Hello! Welcome to The Ultimate Guide to ChatGPT and OpenAI! In this book, we will explore the fascinating world of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) and its groundbreaking applications. Generative AI has transformed the way we interact with machines, enabling computers to create, predict, and learn without explicit human instruction. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2023, we have witnessed unprecedented advances in natural language processing, image and video synthesis, and many other fields. Whether you are a curious beginner or an experienced practitioner, this guide will equip you with the knowledge and skills to navigate the exciting landscape of generative AI. So, let’s dive in and start with some definitions of the context we are moving in.

This chapter provides an overview of the field of generative AI, which consists of creating new and unique data or content using machine learning (ML) algorithms...

Introducing generative AI

AI has been making significant strides in recent years, and one of the areas that has seen considerable growth is generative AI. Generative AI is a subfield of AI and DL that focuses on generating new content, such as images, text, music, and video, by using algorithms and models that have been trained on existing data using ML techniques.

In order to better understand the relationship between AI, ML, DL, and generative AI, consider AI as the foundation, while ML, DL, and generative AI represent increasingly specialized and focused areas of study and application:

• AI represents the broad field of creating systems that can perform tasks, showing human intelligence and ability and being able to interact with the ecosystem.
• ML is a branch that focuses on creating algorithms and models that enable those systems to learn and improve themselves with time and training. ML models learn from existing data and automatically update their parameters as they grow.
• DL is a...

The history and current status of research

In previous sections, we had an overview of the most recent and cutting-edge technologies in the field of generative AI, all developed in recent years. However, the research in this field can be traced back decades ago.

We can mark the beginning of research in the field of generative AI in the 1960s, when Joseph Weizenbaum developed the chatbot ELIZA, one of the first examples of an NLP system. It was a simple rules-based interaction system aimed at entertaining users with responses based on text input, and it paved the way for further developments in both NLP and generative AI. However, we know that modern generative AI is a subfield of DL and, although the first Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were first introduced in the 1940s, researchers faced several challenges, including limited computing power and a lack of understanding of the biological basis of the brain. As a result, ANNs hadn’t gained much attention until the 1980s when...

18 months later: main trends and innovations

Fast forward from November 2022 to today, we have witnessed a huge amount of innovation in the field of GenAI. Many of these innovations are linked to the brand-new models developed and released to the public, like the OpenAI’s GPT-4o and DALL-E3, but also Google Gemini, Meta Llama 3, Microsoft Phi3 and many others.

However, the most remarkable achievements probably lie in the way we interact with and build applications around those models. In this section, we are going to explore three main advancements that have marked the most popular reference architectures for GenAI-powered applications.

Summary

In this chapter, we explored the exciting world of generative AI and its various domains of application, including image generation, text generation, music generation, and video generation. We learned how generative AI models such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, trained by OpenAI, use DL techniques to learn patterns in large datasets and generate new content that is both novel and coherent. We also discussed the history of generative AI, its origins, and the current status of research on it.

The goal of this chapter was to provide a solid foundation in the basics of generative AI and to inspire you to explore this fascinating field further.

In the next chapter, we will focus on one of the most promising technologies available on the market today, ChatGPT: we will go through the research behind it and its development by OpenAI, the architecture of its model, and the main use cases it can address as of today.

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