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The New York Times definition is Silicon Valley has been gripped by a frenzy over start-ups working on “generative” A.I., technologies that can generate text, images and other media in response to short prompts. [1]
The Pinaya et al. definition is Generative AI refers to a set of artificial intelligence techniques and models designed to learn the underlying patterns and structure of a dataset and generate new data points that plausibly could be part of the original dataset. [2]
The NYT definition can be objected to on the grounds that GAN is generative but does not take prompts as input. NYT was probably conflating the broader category of Generative model with the specific category of Generative pre-trained transformer and similar transformer-based architectures, which happened to become popular in 2022. Furthermore the "text, images and other media" part can be objected to on the grounds that a Generative model can generate outputs such as robot actions and industrial HVAC control [3] which are not creative media.
The Pinaya et al. definition can be objected to on the grounds that it doesn't mean much to a Wikipedia reader who is not an expert in the subject. The common usage of "Generative AI" in 2023, and the reason readers will be looking it up, is to refer to systems like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and so on.
To find a balance, I'm editing the lede to refer first to the more general academic/historical definition (essentially a synonym for Generative model), and then to the more specific common modern usage. Lwneal ( talk) 12:17, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
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It has been suggested that the article Synthetic media be merged into this one.
Based on these facts I suggest that the two articles not be merged, and that "Generative AI" continue to refer to the specific type of AI that became extremely well-known starting in late 2022: the type of AI that uses a neural network to understand natural language prompts. Lwneal ( talk) 17:09, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 May 2023 and 10 August 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): NoemieCY ( article contribs).
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I added benfits and risks of generative AI. This is based on an expert briefing of the UN Security Council in July 2023. MensaGlobetrotter ( talk) 21:24, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
In the 1980's and 1990's, the term "Generative Planning" or "Generative AI Planning" was used in some academic AI literature such as this [1] article published by a NASA team in 1997:
"Our deliberator is a traditional generative AI planner based on the HSTS planning framework (Muscettola 1994)"
A definition of HSTS from the cited [2] paper:
"HSTS (Heuristic Scheduling Testbed System) is a representation and problem solving framework that provides an integrated view of planning and scheduling... In the paper we describe an integrated planner and scheduler for short term scheduling of the Hubble Space Telescope"
Does this mean the Hubble Space Telescope was running an early version of ChatGPT?
Reading that article, it is clear that generative AI planner refers to Automated planning and scheduling. The word "generative" here has a meaning closer to generative grammar or Generative Modelling Language, and refers to the practice of generating many possible sequences of actions in a hand-coded state space, using trial-and-error to solve a combinatorial optimization problem.
The "generative planning" of the Hubble Telescope was certainly a type of artificial intelligence- but it was Symbolic AI or GOFAI, not involving a generative model, a neural network or machine learning. Lwneal ( talk) 21:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
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Our deliberator is a traditional generative AI planner based on the HSTS planning framework (Muscettola, 1994), and our control component is a traditional spacecraft attitude control system (Hackney et al. 1993). We also add an architectural component explicitly dedicated to world modeling (the mode identifier), and distinguish between control and monitoring.
I am extremely unhappy with the current framing of generative AI as being derived from / being a variant of transformers and large language models. The fact that LLMs generate paragraphs of text is not a sufficient argument. Historically, the generative AI movement stems from Generative Adversarial networks. The seminal article by Goodfellow (60k citations) is not even mentioned in this Wikipedia entry. This is a rewriting of history and is an usurpation by text people of fundamental findings from pixel people. Yuck. It reminds me of my student who said in a presentation that 'neural networks started with Krishevsky'. 129.125.178.72 ( talk) 11:59, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Shouldn't there be a section about the very high energy consumption required to create and run generative IT? Rosieredfield ( talk) 18:44, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Is AlphaFold really considered generative AI, as suggested in the subsection "Molecules"? My impression is that it predicts the 3D structure of folded proteins, but does not really generate something in the usual sense. Alenoach ( talk) 19:04, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Some of the content of the subsection "Misuse in journalism" is not necessarily misuse, and could arguably be moved to the article Applications of artificial intelligence, especially given that this subsection is quite lengthy. There isn't yet an article about "Artificial intelligence in journalism", but creating one would be another option. Alenoach ( talk) 02:15, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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The New York Times definition is Silicon Valley has been gripped by a frenzy over start-ups working on “generative” A.I., technologies that can generate text, images and other media in response to short prompts. [1]
The Pinaya et al. definition is Generative AI refers to a set of artificial intelligence techniques and models designed to learn the underlying patterns and structure of a dataset and generate new data points that plausibly could be part of the original dataset. [2]
The NYT definition can be objected to on the grounds that GAN is generative but does not take prompts as input. NYT was probably conflating the broader category of Generative model with the specific category of Generative pre-trained transformer and similar transformer-based architectures, which happened to become popular in 2022. Furthermore the "text, images and other media" part can be objected to on the grounds that a Generative model can generate outputs such as robot actions and industrial HVAC control [3] which are not creative media.
The Pinaya et al. definition can be objected to on the grounds that it doesn't mean much to a Wikipedia reader who is not an expert in the subject. The common usage of "Generative AI" in 2023, and the reason readers will be looking it up, is to refer to systems like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and so on.
To find a balance, I'm editing the lede to refer first to the more general academic/historical definition (essentially a synonym for Generative model), and then to the more specific common modern usage. Lwneal ( talk) 12:17, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
References
It has been suggested that the article Synthetic media be merged into this one.
Based on these facts I suggest that the two articles not be merged, and that "Generative AI" continue to refer to the specific type of AI that became extremely well-known starting in late 2022: the type of AI that uses a neural network to understand natural language prompts. Lwneal ( talk) 17:09, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
References
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 May 2023 and 10 August 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): NoemieCY ( article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by NoemieCY ( talk) 13:08, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
I added benfits and risks of generative AI. This is based on an expert briefing of the UN Security Council in July 2023. MensaGlobetrotter ( talk) 21:24, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
In the 1980's and 1990's, the term "Generative Planning" or "Generative AI Planning" was used in some academic AI literature such as this [1] article published by a NASA team in 1997:
"Our deliberator is a traditional generative AI planner based on the HSTS planning framework (Muscettola 1994)"
A definition of HSTS from the cited [2] paper:
"HSTS (Heuristic Scheduling Testbed System) is a representation and problem solving framework that provides an integrated view of planning and scheduling... In the paper we describe an integrated planner and scheduler for short term scheduling of the Hubble Space Telescope"
Does this mean the Hubble Space Telescope was running an early version of ChatGPT?
Reading that article, it is clear that generative AI planner refers to Automated planning and scheduling. The word "generative" here has a meaning closer to generative grammar or Generative Modelling Language, and refers to the practice of generating many possible sequences of actions in a hand-coded state space, using trial-and-error to solve a combinatorial optimization problem.
The "generative planning" of the Hubble Telescope was certainly a type of artificial intelligence- but it was Symbolic AI or GOFAI, not involving a generative model, a neural network or machine learning. Lwneal ( talk) 21:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
References
Our deliberator is a traditional generative AI planner based on the HSTS planning framework (Muscettola, 1994), and our control component is a traditional spacecraft attitude control system (Hackney et al. 1993). We also add an architectural component explicitly dedicated to world modeling (the mode identifier), and distinguish between control and monitoring.
I am extremely unhappy with the current framing of generative AI as being derived from / being a variant of transformers and large language models. The fact that LLMs generate paragraphs of text is not a sufficient argument. Historically, the generative AI movement stems from Generative Adversarial networks. The seminal article by Goodfellow (60k citations) is not even mentioned in this Wikipedia entry. This is a rewriting of history and is an usurpation by text people of fundamental findings from pixel people. Yuck. It reminds me of my student who said in a presentation that 'neural networks started with Krishevsky'. 129.125.178.72 ( talk) 11:59, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Nadpnw, AdvaitPanicker, Ferna235 ( article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Thecanyon ( talk) 05:32, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 February 2024 and 18 March 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Tskhattab ( article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Tskhattab ( talk) 22:37, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a section about the very high energy consumption required to create and run generative IT? Rosieredfield ( talk) 18:44, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Is AlphaFold really considered generative AI, as suggested in the subsection "Molecules"? My impression is that it predicts the 3D structure of folded proteins, but does not really generate something in the usual sense. Alenoach ( talk) 19:04, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Some of the content of the subsection "Misuse in journalism" is not necessarily misuse, and could arguably be moved to the article Applications of artificial intelligence, especially given that this subsection is quite lengthy. There isn't yet an article about "Artificial intelligence in journalism", but creating one would be another option. Alenoach ( talk) 02:15, 27 May 2024 (UTC)