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Introduction to Generative AI
Introduction to Generative AI: Theoretical Foundations, Analysis and Practical Use CasesGenerative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how we create, learn, and imagine. This book offers a clear and complete journey through the science and art behind this revolution — from how machines learn to produce text, images, and music, to how they are being built, tested, and applied in the real world.The first part of the book lays out the ideas that make generative AI possible — neural networks, transformers, diffusion models, and the mysterious “latent spaces” where creativity meets computation. The middle chapters explore how today’s AI systems reason, plan, and use tools, drawing on powerful frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, and AutoGen. The final section moves beyond algorithms, discussing how to build safe, fair, and energy-conscious AI that serves human goals rather than replacing them.Throughout, real-world examples bring the technology to life — from language models that write poetry, to multimodal systems that can paint or compose music, to intelligent agents that collaborate with humans in research, education, and design. Written in accessible language and supported by visual explanations, this book bridges deep technical ideas with human-centered understanding.HighlightsExplains the core principles of how generative models think and createShows how AI systems combine text, vision, and sound in unified waysConnects theory with hands-on applications and real-world use casesDiscusses ethics, creativity, and sustainability in the age of intelligent machinesWritten for learners, researchers, and professionals who want both clarity and depthIntroduction to Generative AI: Theoretical Foundations, Analysis and Practical Use Cases is an essential guide for anyone curious about how artificial intelligence is shaping the next chapter of human innovation.
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Generative AI
Generative AI (GenAI) is the hottest new area of AI, accelerating innovations affecting all industries and showcasing AI’s ability to present human-like language capabilities with large language models (LLMs). This book builds a solid foundation for the technology underlying GenAI Models, LLM, and foundation and reasoning models for the No-Code audience by explaining the models' workings in simple English. It then takes the reader on a journey to find out where there are gaps to innovate. Each chapter outlines the state of research in each topic and invites learners to build on this research to think about ethical implications and balance it with innovation to benefit everyone. The author covers the technological, product, and societal impact of Generative AI to give a comprehensive guide for this important technology. This book will help the data scientist, product manager, and business leader alike because it covers the API economy and critical industries impacted and offers a framework to think about automation and jobs impacted and what competencies are needed to excel in GenAI and offers an in-depth guide to build GenAI products and applications.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence
This book explains the field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on its potential and applications, and aims to provide you with an understanding of the underlying principles, techniques, and practical use cases of Generative AI models.The book begins with an introduction to the foundations of Generative AI, including an overview of the field, its evolution, and its significance in today’s AI landscape. It focuses on generative visual models, exploring the exciting field of transforming text into images and videos. A chapter covering text-to-video generation provides insights into synthesizing videos from textual descriptions, opening up new possibilities for creative content generation. A chapter covers generative audio models and prompt-to-audio synthesis using Text-to-Speech (TTS) techniques. Then the book switch gears to dive into generative text models, exploring the concepts of Large Language Models (LLMs), natural language generation (NLG), fine-tuning, prompt tuning, and reinforcement learning. The book explores techniques for fixing LLMs and making them grounded and indestructible, along with practical applications in enterprise-grade applications such as question answering, summarization, and knowledge-based generation.By the end of this book, you will understand Generative text, and audio and visual models, and have the knowledge and tools necessary to harness the creative and transformative capabilities of Generative AI. What You Will LearnWhat is Generative Artificial Intelligence?What are text-to-image synthesis techniques and conditional image generation?What is prompt-to-audio synthesis using Text-to-Speech (TTS) techniques?What are text-to-video models and how do you tune them?What are large language models, and how do you tune them? Who This Book Is ForThose with intermediate to advanced technical knowledge in artificial intelligence and machine learning
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Essentials of Generative AI
This book provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to generative artificial intelligence.The first part explains the foundational technologies and architectures that support the realization of generative models. It covers evolved and deepened elements, word embeddings as a representative example of representation learning, and the Transformer as a network foundation, along with its underlying attention mechanism. Reinforcement learning, which became essential for elevating large-scale language models to language generation models, is also discussed in detail, focusing on essential aspects.The second part deals with language generation. It starts by elucidating language modelsand introduces large-scale language models with broad applications as the foundational architecture of language processing, further discussing language generation models as their evolution. Though not common terminology, in this book, models such as ChatGPT and Llama 2, which are large-scale language models fine-tuned using reinforcement learning, are referred to as generative language models.The third part addresses image generation, discussing variational autoencoders and the remarkable diffusion models. Additionally, it explains Generative Adversarial Networks(GAN). Although GAN poses challenges due to unstable learning, their conceptual framework is widely applicable, especially Wasserstein GAN seems suitable for introducing optimal trans- port distance, which is utilized in various scenarios.This book primarily serves as a companion for researchers or graduate students in machine learning, aiming to help them understand the essence of generative AI and lay the groundwork for advancing their own research.
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Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence
This book delves into the core of education’s digital transformation, presenting a thorough and empirical examination of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)’s impact beyond the theoretical and fragmented insights prevalent in current discourse.Drawing from peer-reviewed and extensive empirical studies, the contributors aim to unveil the multifaceted effects of GenAI (particularly ChatGPT) on learning. They navigate through topics of interaction, assessment, emotion, effect and efficiency, meta-cognition, and ethics, offering a comprehensive exploration of GenAI’s educational implications. This book presents a closed loop of learning theory, multimodal data, and learning analytics technology. Furthermore, this book builds and proposes core conceptual models for future learning and identifies potential research directions.This book will serve as a foundational reference for educators seeking innovative learning and teaching methods and for researchers and technologists who seek to push the boundaries of educational technology and related areas.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Real-world Applications
This book integrates the concepts of explainable artificial intelligence, and generative explainable artificial intelligence, showcasing how explainability can be incorporated into generative models. It highlights the importance of making generative models transparent, offering strategies to achieve this through interpretability techniques.Focuses on the principles and methodologies of explainable artificial intelligence, providing readers with a thorough understanding of how artificial intelligence models can be made transparent and interpretable.Explores explainable artificial intelligence techniques, including feature importance, SHAP values, LIME, and counterfactual explanations.Offers an in-depth examination of generative artificial intelligence, covering cutting-edge advancements in generative models like GANs, VAEs, and transformer-based architectures.Bridges the gap between theoretical concepts and their practical applications, making advanced artificial intelligence technologies accessible to the readers.Includes numerous case studies and real-world examples that demonstrate the successful application of generative artificial intelligence, and explainable artificial intelligence.The text is primarily written for graduate students and academic researchers in electrical engineering, electronics, and communication engineering, computer science and engineering, biomedical engineering, and information technology.
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Generative AI
From algorithms that draft clinical notes in seconds to autonomous agents that triage emergency room backlogs, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping every facet of healthcare. Generative AI: Unlocking the Next Chapter in Healthcare is the first comprehensive guide to this revolution—charting how we got here, what’s working now, and where the technology could take us next.Drawing on frontline case studies from leading health systems, biotech labs, and tech giants, the book reveals how large language models, synthetic data engines, and multi agent ecosystems are boosting diagnostic accuracy, accelerating drug discovery, and personalizing patient engagement. It also confronts the hard questions—privacy, bias, liability, and the fear of “machines taking over”—offering clear, actionable frameworks for ethical, human centered deployment.Written for clinicians, executives, innovators, and policy makers and patients alike, this definitive volume distils the expertise of industry pioneers into an accessible roadmap. You’ll explore:• The evolution from early machine learning to today’s generative powerhouses• Real world wins—ambient documentation, AI assisted radiology, virtual nursing, and more• The players shaping the landscape: Epic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Salesforce, and a wave of insurgent startups• Guardrails that preserve trust, protect privacy, and keep humans in the loop• Bold yet plausible futures—from digital twin medicine to globe-spanning agent networksWhether you’re leading a hospital, building health tech solutions, a tech startup, or simply curious about the future of care, Generative AI: Unlocking the Next Chapter in Healthcare delivers the insight, inspiration, and practical guidance you need to thrive in the era where human empathy and machine intelligence work side by side.
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Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2
Fun and exciting projects to learn what artificial minds can createKey FeaturesCode examples are in TensorFlow 2, which make it easy for PyTorch users to follow alongLook inside the most famous deep generative models, from GPT to MuseGANLearn to build and adapt your own models in TensorFlow 2.xExplore exciting, cutting-edge use cases for deep generative AIBook DescriptionMachines are excelling at creative human skills such as painting, writing, and composing music. Could you be more creative than generative AI?In this book, you’ll explore the evolution of generative models, from restricted Boltzmann machines and deep belief networks to VAEs and GANs. You’ll learn how to implement models yourself in TensorFlow and get to grips with the latest research on deep neural networks.There’s been an explosion in potential use cases for generative models. You’ll look at Open AI’s news generator, deepfakes, and training deep learning agents to navigate a simulated environment. Recreate the code that’s under the hood and uncover surprising links between text, image, and music generation.What you will learnExport the code from GitHub into Google Colab to see how everything works for yourselfCompose music using LSTM models, simple GANs, and MuseGANCreate deepfakes using facial landmarks, autoencoders, and pix2pix GANLearn how attention and transformers have changed NLPBuild several text generation pipelines based on LSTMs, BERT, and GPT-2Implement paired and unpaired style transfer with networks like StyleGANDiscover emerging applications of generative AI like folding proteins and creating videos from imagesWho this book is forThis is a book for Python programmers who are keen to create and have some fun using generative models. To make the most out of this book, you should have a basic familiarity with math and statistics for machine learning.
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Generative AI
From algorithms that draft clinical notes in seconds to autonomous agents that triage emergency room backlogs, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping every facet of healthcare. Generative AI: Unlocking the Next Chapter in Healthcare is the first comprehensive guide to this revolution—charting how we got here, what’s working now, and where the technology could take us next.Drawing on frontline case studies from leading health systems, biotech labs, and tech giants, the book reveals how large language models, synthetic data engines, and multi agent ecosystems are boosting diagnostic accuracy, accelerating drug discovery, and personalizing patient engagement. It also confronts the hard questions—privacy, bias, liability, and the fear of “machines taking over”—offering clear, actionable frameworks for ethical, human centered deployment.Written for clinicians, executives, innovators, and policy makers and patients alike, this definitive volume distils the expertise of industry pioneers into an accessible roadmap. You’ll explore:• The evolution from early machine learning to today’s generative powerhouses• Real world wins—ambient documentation, AI assisted radiology, virtual nursing, and more• The players shaping the landscape: Epic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Salesforce, and a wave of insurgent startups• Guardrails that preserve trust, protect privacy, and keep humans in the loop• Bold yet plausible futures—from digital twin medicine to globe-spanning agent networksWhether you’re leading a hospital, building health tech solutions, a tech startup, or simply curious about the future of care, Generative AI: Unlocking the Next Chapter in Healthcare delivers the insight, inspiration, and practical guidance you need to thrive in the era where human empathy and machine intelligence work side by side.
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Generative AI and Creativity
Generative AI and Creativity: From Theory to Practice is an immersive exploration into the revolutionary domain of generative artificial intelligence. It takes a step-by-step journey starting with the fundamentals of generative AI and progressing to advanced applications. The book unravels the complexities of generative models, delving into key techniques such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAE)s, providing a solid foundation for readers to understand the underlying principles.FEATURES• Explores the collaboration between humans and AI in creative processes• Examines generative art movements, graphic design applications, and artist-AI collaborations• Defines creativity in AI, by showcasing case studies and discussing ethical considerationsMoving beyond creative content generation in art and music to practical implementations in industries like healthcare and finance, the book showcases the versatility and transformative potential of generative AI across diverse domains. Readers will gain practical skills through coding examples, case studies, and collaborative projects, empowering them to integrate generative AI into their own work.The book is enriched with stories of innovation, featuring pioneers who have leveraged generative AI to push the boundaries of creativity. Ethical considerations and the societal impact of generative AI are also explored to foster a holistic understanding of the technology.
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Generative AI and Creativity
Generative AI and Creativity: From Theory to Practice is an immersive exploration into the revolutionary domain of generative artificial intelligence. It takes a step-by-step journey starting with the fundamentals of generative AI and progressing to advanced applications. The book unravels the complexities of generative models, delving into key techniques such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAE)s, providing a solid foundation for readers to understand the underlying principles.FEATURES• Explores the collaboration between humans and AI in creative processes• Examines generative art movements, graphic design applications, and artist-AI collaborations• Defines creativity in AI, by showcasing case studies and discussing ethical considerationsMoving beyond creative content generation in art and music to practical implementations in industries like healthcare and finance, the book showcases the versatility and transformative potential of generative AI across diverse domains. Readers will gain practical skills through coding examples, case studies, and collaborative projects, empowering them to integrate generative AI into their own work.The book is enriched with stories of innovation, featuring pioneers who have leveraged generative AI to push the boundaries of creativity. Ethical considerations and the societal impact of generative AI are also explored to foster a holistic understanding of the technology.
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Generative AI and Generative AI of Things for Sustainable Smart Cities
This pioneering book invites readers on a compelling journey into Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its groundbreaking convergence with AI of Things (AIoT), introducing GAIoT as a transformative frontier in urban computing and intelligence. GAIoT signals a paradigm shift towards more intelligent, self-learning, self-evolving, and context-aware systems—capable of generating adaptive, forward-looking solutions to the complex infrastructuraland environmental challenges confronting sustainable smart cities.With its combination of theoretical depth, applied innovation, and interdisciplinary scope, the book offers a comprehensive examination of deep generative models—namely Generative Adversarial Networks, Variational Autoencoders, Diffusion Models, Transformers, and hybrid architectures—and their applications in environmental sustainability, climate resilience, infrastructure optimization, dynamic decision-making, and data-driven urban management and planning. From synthetic data generation, data augmentation, and data imputation to predictive modeling and scenario simulation, GAIoT is driving the next wave of climate-responsive, environmentally conscious smart city innovation.What sets this book apart is its first-of-its-kind focus on GAIoT as a pathbreaking force in shaping the future of sustainable urban development. It delivers actionable insights, conceptual and operational frameworks, case studies, and policy guidance—equipping diverse stakeholders with the tools to build cities that not only respond to change but also anticipate and shape it. Targeting a broad and cross-disciplinary audience, the book shares state-of-the-art research, presents innovative solutions, and forecasts future trends in urban transformation. As both a seminal reference and a practical resource for researchers, technologists, practitioners, professionals, and policymakers, it provides essential guidance for those engaged in advancing the next frontier in urban computing and intelligence.
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Exploring Generative AI with Computational Intelligence
This book demystifies the concept of AI-driven creativity with an in-depth understanding of the underlying principles, algorithms, and applications of generative AI. It begins with a coverage of AI fundamentals, followed by a technical discussion including detailed explanations of model architectures, training processes, and optimisation techniques. It explores case studies showcasing how generative AI is reshaping industries such as entertainment, marketing, design, and healthcare. The book also tackles ethical considerations, addressing issues related to bias, transparency, and responsible AI development.Features:Provides deep understanding of generative AI, including in-depth coverage of various generative models such as GANs, VAEs, and RNNs.Includes practical, real-world examples of how generative AI is applied in different industries.Dedicates significant attention to ethical considerations.Equips readers with the knowledge and tools to build, train, and deploy their own generative AI systems.Offers thorough explanations of AI algorithms, neural network architectures, and training processes.This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in computer engineering, AI and ML.
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Generative AI Unleashed
Today's generative AI has been marked by the advent of neural networks, inspired by the human brain, which are trained to recognize patterns in a dataset. Once the network is trained, it can make decisions or predictions without being programmed to perform tasks. Generative AI learns from a set of data without explicit instructions and can create and generate new digital content such as text, audio and art. Recent models are beginning to overcome challenges such as computational power, data quality and training stability. This edited book on generative AI presents novel perspectives, approaches and methodologies, as well as security, ethical and legal considerations, and future trends. Topics and technologies covered include generative transformers and text generation models, generative models for human-like speech synthesis, generative AI for image synthesis, data synthesis for privacy protection, and exploration of the impact of generative AI in fields including industry 4.0, astronomy, and brain tumour detection. Two chapters offer perspectives on ethics and legality. Generative AI Unleashed: Advancements, transformative applications and future frontiers will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, advanced students and lecturers operating in the domains that are significantly impacted by generative AI.
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Modern Generative AI with ChatGPT and OpenAI Models
Harness the power of AI with innovative, real-world applications, and unprecedented productivity boosts, powered by the latest advancements in AI technology like ChatGPT and OpenAIPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesExplore the theory behind generative AI models and the road to GPT3 and GPT4Become familiar with ChatGPT's applications to boost everyday productivityLearn to embed OpenAI models into applications using lightweight frameworks like LangChainBook DescriptionGenerative AI models and AI language models are becoming increasingly popular due to their unparalleled capabilities. This book will provide you with insights into the inner workings of the LLMs and guide you through creating your own language models. You'll start with an introduction to the field of generative AI, helping you understand how these models are trained to generate new data. Next, you'll explore use cases where ChatGPT can boost productivity and enhance creativity. You'll learn how to get the best from your ChatGPT interactions by improving your prompt design and leveraging zero, one, and few-shots learning capabilities. The use cases are divided into clusters of marketers, researchers, and developers, which will help you apply what you learn in this book to your own challenges faster. You'll also discover enterprise-level scenarios that leverage OpenAI models' APIs available on Azure infrastructure; both generative models like GPT-3 and embedding models like Ada. For each scenario, you'll find an end-to-end implementation with Python, using Streamlit as the frontend and the LangChain SDK to facilitate models' integration into your applications. By the end of this book, you'll be well equipped to use the generative AI field and start using ChatGPT and OpenAI models' APIs in your own projects.What you will learnUnderstand generative AI concepts from basic to intermediate levelFocus on the GPT architecture for generative AI modelsMaximize ChatGPT's value with an effective prompt designExplore applications and use cases of ChatGPTUse OpenAI models and features via API callsBuild and deploy generative AI systems with PythonLeverage Azure infrastructure for enterprise-level use casesEnsure responsible AI and ethics in generative AI systemsWho this book is forThis book is for individuals interested in boosting their daily productivity; businesspersons looking to dive deeper into real-world applications to empower their organizations; data scientists and developers trying to identify ways to boost ML models and code; marketers and researchers seeking to leverage use cases in their domain – all by using Chat GPT and OpenAI Models.A basic understanding of Python is required; however, the book provides theoretical descriptions alongside sections with code so that the reader can learn the concrete use case application without running the scripts.
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Generative AI: Current Trends and Applications
This comprehensive volume focuses on the latest advancements in Generative AI, including state-of-the-art techniques and models that are pushing the boundaries of what is possible. It covers recent developments in areas such as Generative AI models, transfer learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) highlighting their potential to revolutionize content generation and creative applications including OpenAI, LangChain, NLTK and their practical implementations across diverse domains. The volume provides insights into emerging research areas, novel architectures, and innovative approaches in Generative AI, giving searchers a glimpse into the exciting future of the field. The aim is to offer readers a deep understanding of Generative AI and how it can be harnessed to tackle complex real-world challenges.
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Generative AI Design Patterns
Generative AI enables powerful new capabilities, but they come with some serious limitations that you'll have to tackle to ship a reliable application or agent. Luckily, experts in the field have compiled a library of 32 tried-and-true design patterns to address the challenges you're likely to encounter when building applications using LLMs, such as hallucinations, nondeterministic responses, and knowledge cutoffs.This book codifies research and real-world experience into advice you can incorporate into your projects. Each pattern describes a problem, shows a proven way to solve it with a fully coded example, and discusses trade-offs.Design around the limitations of LLMsEnsure that generated content follows a specific style, tone, or formatMaximize creativity while balancing different types of riskBuild agents that plan, self-correct, take action, and collaborate with other agentsCompose patterns into agentic applications for a variety of use cases
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Practical Generative AI with ChatGPT
Transform your professional world with ChatGPT and OpenAI—master prompt design to revolutionize development, marketing, research, and enterprise implementationKey FeaturesTurn ChatGPT into your companion for marketing, research, personal productivity, art and codingLearn prompt engineering techniques that deliver consistent, relevant, and ethical AI-powered resultsBuild custom GPTs and assistants tailored to your specific business needs and workflowsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionPractical Generative AI with ChatGPT is your hands-on guide to unlocking the full potential of ChatGPT. From building AI assistants and mastering prompt engineering to analyzing documents and images and even generating code, this book equips you with the skills to integrate generative AI into your workflow.Written by a technical architect specializing in AI and intelligent applications, this book provides the tools and knowledge you need to streamline tasks, enhance productivity, and create intelligent solutions. You’ll learn how to craft precise prompts, leverage ChatGPT for daily efficiency, and develop custom AI assistants tailored to your needs.The chapters show you how to use ChatGPT’s multimodal capabilities to generate images with DALL·E and even transform images into code. This ChatGPT book goes beyond basic interactions by showing you how to design custom GPTs and integrate OpenAI’s APIs into your applications. You’ll explore how businesses use OpenAI models, from building AI applications, including semantic search, to creating an AI roadmap. Each chapter is packed with practical examples, ensuring you can apply the techniques right away.By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to leverage OpenAI's technology for competitive advantage.What you will learnExplore the fundamentals of generative AI and GPT modelsMaster prompt engineering to consistently get relevant and reliable outputs from ChatGPTDevelop marketing strategies and conduct meaningful A/B testing with AI assistanceBoost your coding with code generation, review, and optimizationEnhance research with real-time knowledge miningEnhance your visual creativity with image generation, image understanding, and style transferDesign custom GPTs and assistants tailored to specific business functionsDiscover how enterprises are leveraging large language models for their AI appsWho this book is forThis book is ideal for business professionals, developers, marketers, researchers, and decision-makers who want to leverage AI to enhance productivity. No advanced technical background is required for the foundational sections, making the content accessible to beginners, while later chapters provide depth for technical professionals implementing enterprise solutions. If you’re seeking practical applications of generative AI in business contexts, you’ll find immediate, actionable value in this book.
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Beginner’s Guide to Generative AI
This book is the essential guide for anyone curious about AI's creative power. In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, generative AI stands out as one of the most transformative technologies of our time. Designed for beginners and requiring no prior knowledge of AI, this book breaks down the fundamentals of generative AI, from text and image generation to the workings of models like ChatGPT and Google Bard. The authors provide step-by-step coverage of the essential concepts and techniques that power generative AI. From the basics of how machines learn to generate text and images, to the intricate workings of models like Transformers, ChatGPT, and Google Bard, readers will gain a solid foundation in AI's most cutting-edge tools. Rather than focusing on a single method, the authors introduce a spectrum of generative modeling techniques, including diffusion models, variational autoencoders, and transformers. This comprehensive exposure ensures readers will be well-prepared to understand and adapt to the rapidly evolving AI landscape. In addition, real-world applications of generative AI across various industries are explored including healthcare innovations, business analytics, and legal technology, and the authors provide practical insights and examples that show how generative AI is revolutionizing these fields.
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