Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models (such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc.) respond to natural language text inputs and are designed to generate human-like text, video, audio, and image responses. 

The ASU University Provost's website provides a helpful description of generative AI.

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content — such as text, images, videos, music, artwork and synthetic data — based on user input. By analyzing large datasets, these AI systems learn patterns and structures, enabling them to generate content similar in style and characteristics to the original material used in training. This process uses machine learning models, including complex neural networks, to produce results that reflect the characteristics of human-created content.

Examples of generative AI include popular tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E and StableDiffusion.