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Can someone ELI5 for me what GenAI is? I've never heard of them and their website is just the usual content-free buzzword salad: artificial intelligence - what

Can someone ELI5 for me what GenAI is? I've never heard of them and their website is just the usual content-free buzzword salad: artificial intelligence - what else, sigh! transformative - you bet business AND consumer - so basically everyone, why tell at all? various industries - everyone again pioneering - yeah, what else vertically integrated - sure, I was just waiting for that AI solution - oh, who would have thought? AI-powered!- you are saying! I've literally not even finished the second sentence on the page and this rambling abomination goes on and on and on... EDIT For reference the first two sentences: "GenAI, our mission is to harness the power of artificial intelligence to create transformative tools that benefit businesses and consumers across various industries. GenAI is a pioneering artificial intelligence company focused on developing a vertically integrated AI solutions business through its proprietary MAI Cloud™ database, with the development and commercialization of AI-powered tools and solutions for businesses and consumers across multiple industries." EDIT After reading other comments I think GenAI is a generic term (like blockchain) referring to Generative AI. In my defense the OP is not enlightening in this regard at all, so I just googled the term and the company website of genai-solutions.com was the first result. Nothing in the OP says that Stackoverflow is working with this specific company, however, that was just my (likely erroneous) assumption.

lamp987 3y ago
that sounds like a scam
chx 3y ago
It's a fancy name for automated plagiarism.
- falcor84 3y ago
  It's generating content based on the previous content it encountered - just like a human. As such, it's only plagiarism if a human passes it as their own work (same as they would with a human ghost writer), but then it's the human plagiarising rather than the AI.
  - chx 3y ago
    This is such baloney. Another way it resembles crypto. Humans sense, interpret, organize, and consciously feel and experience internal and external stimuli none of which is applicable to stochastic parrots.
CoastalCoder 3y ago
> business AND consumer At least for me, those two categories don't (strongly) include education or government.
- weinzierl 3y ago
  Fair, but I doubt they'd refuse to sell those too.
mattnewton 3y ago
It’s an abbreviation for generative ai, which are models trained to synthesize novel things matching structures in the training data. Think GPT, stable diffusion, eleven labs.
- reportgunner 3y ago
  Missed a great opportunity to call it AItocomplete

lamp987 3y ago

that sounds like a scam

chx 3y ago

It's a fancy name for automated plagiarism.

falcor84 3y ago
It's generating content based on the previous content it encountered - just like a human. As such, it's only plagiarism if a human passes it as their own work (same as they would with a human ghost writer), but then it's the human plagiarising rather than the AI.
- chx 3y ago
  This is such baloney. Another way it resembles crypto. Humans sense, interpret, organize, and consciously feel and experience internal and external stimuli none of which is applicable to stochastic parrots.

CoastalCoder 3y ago

> business AND consumer At least for me, those two categories don't (strongly) include education or government.

weinzierl 3y ago
Fair, but I doubt they'd refuse to sell those too.

mattnewton 3y ago

It’s an abbreviation for generative ai, which are models trained to synthesize novel things matching structures in the training data. Think GPT, stable diffusion, eleven labs.

reportgunner 3y ago
Missed a great opportunity to call it AItocomplete