Chapter 1

Introduction to Generative AI

Everything we've built in this course has lived in discriminative machine learning — models that decide. This chapter pivots to generative machine learning: models that create. We define the probability distributions each framework estimates, trace the real history of generative AI from 2014 GAN experiments to 2022's public explosion, and contrast neural generative models with the limited traditional approaches that preceded them.

• 1. From Predicting to Creating→