Stanford: Generative AI: Perspectives from Stanford HAI
The current wave of generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence that, based on a textual prompt, generates novel content. ChatGPT might write an essay, Midjourney could create beautiful illustrations, or MusicLM could compose a jingle. Most modern generative AI is powered by foundation models, or AI models trained on broad data using self-supervision at scale, then adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks.