A primer on generative AI – and what it could mean for healthcare

With the dawn of OpenAI’s chatGPT, talk of artificial intelligence is at a fever pitch. So it’s important to know exactly what this latest flavor of AI is.

Generative AI refers to a class of machine learning models that are developed using (or “trained” on) large volumes of text, audio or image data in order to generate plausible new content.

Through the process of training, generative AI models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 – referred to as…