generative AI
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Systems that produce new text, images, audio or code rather than classifying or ranking existing material.
The technology was not new in November 2022; the access was. ChatGPT's launch on 30 November 2022 reached a hundred million monthly users in two months, and what changed was that using a language model stopped requiring an API key or any idea of what a transformer is. Capability had been improving for years in public view.
Also known as: genai, gen ai
Sources
- ChatGPT launch, 30 November 2022; 100 million monthly users within two months