Generative AI Essentials to Survive the 2024 AIpocalypse!

Praneeth Kandula
13 min readMay 17, 2024
Dystopian Cityscape. Image Generated Using Midjourney.

When the AI overlords come knocking at your door in the not so distant dystopian future, you better be prepared to plead your case with them. The first step to be able to get on their good side is to understand how they work, what they do best and why? The knowledge that follows below serves as the initial step toward earning their favor. Good Luck and may the superior Intelligence prevail!

What is Gen AI?

Gen AI stands for Generative Artificial Intelligence.

Generative AI is a branch of AI that enables machines to learn patterns from vast datasets and then to autonomously produce new content based on those patterns.” — from IEEE Spectrum.

Gen AI models today are able to produce not only text — ChatGPT, LLaMA, Claude, but Images — Midjourney, DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, Audio — Suno, and even Video — Sora, Pika. These models are also increasingly becoming multimodal i.e. they are not restricted to just one medium but a single model is able to understand and generate content across multiple modalities, such as text, images, and audio simultaneously.

How is Gen AI Different from AI and ML?

While AI (Artificial Intelligence) encompasses a broad field of creating systems or machines that…

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