In this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss generative AI, one of the three major branches of artificial intelligence. This includes tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Copilot. They start by defining artificial intelligence and the three big categories within it: regression, classification, and generation. Generative AI makes things and allows people to interact with artificial intelligence in a way that they don’t have to be an expert to do so. However, it can’t create something truly unique that has never been seen before, and it doesn’t do well with vagueness. The models are also being used unethically by creating misinformation, disinformation, and deep fakes at a massive scale to create the appearance of credibility. They advise to use generative AI ethically and be specific when using it.

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In this week’s In-Ear Insights, let’s talk about generative AI.

It is one of the three major branches of artificial intelligence.

And it is the one that people can’t stop talking about.

This is tools like ChatGPT, and Google Bard and Microsoft copilot.

So Katie, where do you want to start with generative AI?

Well, I think a general definition would probably be helpful, I think there’s a couple of things that we need to set the stage for, like, first of all, what is and what isn’t artificial intelligence? And then more specifically, what is generative AI? And so, you know, at a at a very, very, very, very high level, artificial intelligence is math.

It’s math equations that are, you know, learning and running.

But I think that there’s a misunderstanding that, especially with generative AI, as you are interacting with systems like ChatGPT, there is this feeling that it’s becoming sentient and alive and learning, and it’s actually talking to you as a person.

But really, it is just, you know, learning based on the information that’s been given.

So can you give us the two definitions? What is artificial intelligence in layman’s terms? And then what is generative AI?

Sure.

So artificial intelligence is an umbrella term, that is the discipline of trying to get computers to perform intelligence tasks that hu