Empowering the Public Sector with Generative AI: From Strategy and Design to Real-World Applications

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S. Pulapaka et al.Empowering the Public Sector with Generative AIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0473-1_1

1. Introduction to Generative AI

Sanjeev Pulapaka¹  , Srinath Godavarthi² and Dr. Sherry Ding³

(1)

Brambleton, VA, USA

(2)

Stone Ridge, VA, USA

(3)

Herndon, VA, USA

 

In the fall of 1989, the first year of our bachelor’s degree program, a student asked the professor, “So, do you feed this flowchart to the computer and then it generates code?” The professor had this strange look and responded, “No, you need to develop the code, compile, and run it.” Getting a computer to generate code using a flowchart was a silly thought or a brilliant thought at the time ...