Thinking / 13 May 2023 / Technology

With ChatGPT, MidJourney, Dall-E and countless other popular A.I.

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platforms, we can safely say that one type of artificial intelligence fascinates the general public immensely: Generative A.I. 🚀 But... what exactly is it?

🧠 Generative A.I. is a subfield of machine learning focused on creating new content. This can involve generating images, music, speech or text. The goal is to develop models that can learn from existing data and then create new, original output.

💡 But how does it work? Generative A.I. models, such as GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), work by making two neural networks "fight" each other. One network (the "generator") tries to create realistic data, while the other network (the "discriminator") - using a training set of real images - tries to determine whether the generated data is real or fake and provides "tips" that allow the generator to adjust itself better. Through this competition, both networks improve their skills, making the output increasingly better while still remaining unique and new.

Generative A.I. has enormous potential. It can help us create new art, design products, simulate scenarios for training and much more. The technology above is only one of many techniques, and the development of new techniques obviously does not stand still, so fascinating times still lie ahead!