What is artificial intelligence?
The definition of AI has changed over time, but put simply it is ‘a system’s ability to correctly interpret external data, to learn from such data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation‘.
We take AI tools for granted every day – from search engines to digital voice assistants to facial recognition on our phones.
Generative AI is a field of artificial intelligence that has taken the world by storm. Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. The best known example of generative AI is ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which is a type of deep neural network designed to generate human-like text. It has been trained on massive amounts of text data (including books, articles and web pages) to understand and generate responses to a wide range of natural language inputs (thanks ChatGPT for that description). There has been a proliferation of generative AI writing apps, with enterprise software companies like Microsoft and Google (as well as a host of start-up companies) implementing the technology for a variety of uses.
