What is Generative AI? (With Examples)

Are you aware that with the recent Artificial Technologies(AI), you can generate content in a matter of seconds? These contents include texts, images, audio, video, and even codes. All required of you are prompts.

This article will explore what generative AIs are with few examples for different purpose.

What is Generative AI?

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence capable of producing text, images, audio, video, codes, and many more when given a prompt.

One thing most people don’t know is that generative AI is not a brand-new technology. Yes, they have been existing long before the 2000s in their own way.

A unique thing about generative AI is its ability to produce content in the same format it was given and also in a format different from what it was given. An example is text-to-text and image-to-video.

Generative AI has spanned several industries ranging from education, media, and entertainment to the health sector.

What are Prompts?

Prompts are textual descriptions that help a certain AI tool to understand the user’s requirements. For example, when you open ChatGPT, a box looking like this would appear:

In the “Send a message” box, you type your query. It’s a prompt.

However, AI Prompt Writing is a skill in itself. For instance, if you want ChatGPT to write a LinkedIn post for you, you first need to describe the kind of post. What tone should it be in? What’s the narrative? What do you want the post to include? Is it a story, informational or promotional?

Such extra details must be added to utilize AI tools to their full potential. Explain each detail of how you want the output to be. That’s how you write a good prompt.

How Does Generative AI Work?

Generative AI aims to mimic the human capacity for creativity and the generation of new ideas. Now, let’s discuss how this works.

Generative AI uses complex algorithms and neural networks to learn and identify patterns from vast amounts of data. The AI system is exposed to a dataset containing examples of the content it aims to generate, such as images, text, or music.

Through this exposure, the AI system learns the underlying patterns and structures in the data. It identifies correlations, and relationships, allowing it to generate new content that aligns with the learned patterns.

In other words, AI is taught to recognize what makes a piece of content look like a specific type or category.

Once trained, the generative AI system can generate original content by sampling from the learned patterns.

Examples of Generative AI

Generative AI is used across several fields and industries and they are not limited there. Its use has brought up the unending argument of “Will AI replace humans?“

Source: Rapidops

For Writers

ChatGPT: ChatGPT is best known for generating user-oriented feedback and answers. Therefore, it’s often used for research purposes as well as to fulfil certain requirements.
Writesonic: Writesonic can tailor to a particular brand voice and idea while curating write-ups. However, the tool would still need human editing rounds to finalise the content.
DeepL: DeepL is an AI translation tool that is much more accurate than others including Google Translate and Microsoft Translate. The AI tool also has a “saved translation” feature and translates in various languages.
Articoolo: Articoolo is one of those AI writing tools that can write an article from scratch. In addition, it can format sentences and summarise a whole article.
Talk to Transformer: The AI tool requires you to put a few beginning sentences or a paragraph to generate the whole article. Plus, all you need to do next is choose the tone. That’s it!
Rytr: Unlike most of the AI writing tools, Rytr is more of an assistant to writers. It has an exceptional variety of features such as a text editor, keyword research, outline and brief generation, tone, and more.
Copy.ai: Copy.ai is a copy-generating tool that is popularly used by copywriters. It’s known for the wide range of copy it generates including short-form and long-form copy.

For Art

Pikazo: Pikazo turns one of the given pictures into a brand-new work of art. Simply, the tool repaints your given picture. However, it’s known for taking a long time — at least 10 minutes.
Artbreeder: Artbreeder allows you to generate new images from a prompt. All you need to do is write the details of what you want and it’ll generate the same for you.
DALL – E2: Similar to Artbreeder, DALL-E2 can generate images from textual descriptions. However, the tool is known to be the best among professionals.
DeepArt.io: Deep Art Effects is well-known for its advanced editing features.
GANPaint Studio: If you want to add a new element to an image in your camera roll, or remove one, and still have a natural picture, this tool is for you

For Music

AIVA (Artificial Intelligence Virtual Art): AIVA can compose emotional soundtracks for movies, games, trailers, and TV shows.
MuseNet: MuseNet is an amusing tool that can produce 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments. It can also blend different styles and genres.
Amper Music: Amper Music can help you control the length and structure of your music, along with the instrumentation and mood of your song’s narrative. The best thing about the tool is that it gives you royalty-free access to all your music.
Hookpad: Hookpad is a life-saver for all beginner songwriters who wish to write and produce music. The tool helps you to write and experiment with chord progressions along with musical theories

Advertising and Marketing

Persado: Persado generates words and phrases in the brand voice to persuade customers, visiting a website or video.
Cortex: Cortex includes features that provide real-time marketing insights and their impact across platforms. These insights are very helpful when curating content strategy.
Albert: Albert, a marketing campaign AI tool, can be extremely helpful in setting up campaigns and allocating budget. In addition, the tool is said to be known for reaching out to the audience.

Conclusion

The debate is still on – “Will generative AI replace humans?” The truth remains that there will always be the need for a human in the entire process.

While it may take away some jobs, it will create new ones.

Generative AI is here to make life and work easier. Imagine completing a five-hour task in two hours because of the power of AI. The hard truth is that generative AI is here to stay and will keep evolving.

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