Generative AI, the product of OpenAI’s vision, could not have emerged without the first era of AI commercialization. Generative AI models are deep learning models trained to generate reproductions of their data inputs. From old text, they learn to synthesize new text; from old images, they learn to synthesize new images. But to do so at high-enough fidelity to become humanlike, which OpenAI says is key in its quest for AGI, they are trained on more data and compute than have ever been used before. Generative AI is thus the maximalist form of deep learning.
