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What's unsolved in generative AI?

mewelch.substack.com · 1,724 words · saved by 1 readers

Generative models are the talk of the town, but there are challenges (and opportunities) in this new paradigm.

Generative AI has taken the technology world by storm. While today’s generative models are built upon a decade of progress–thanks to Moore’s Law, better algorithms, and bigger datasets–2022 does feel like an “AlexNet” moment. In the way that computer vision breakthroughs meant computers could see, today’s computers can now create in ways never before thought possible, producing impressive text, imagery, video, 3D assets, and more. Much has already been written about the market opportunities for the Cambrian explosion of startups now emerging, which aim to remake everything from creative…

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