Visualizing Generative AI

Chapter 2. Using Generative AI

Chapter 2

Using Generative AI

In the previous chapter, we discussed what Generative AI is and how it works. Users, however, consider a technology as being transformational only if it significantly makes their lives easier. Therefore, what matters is how useful and how good the products that incorporate the technology are. On this front, GenAI has been compelling.

In this chapter, we will look at tools that enable consumers to use GenAI and products that have GenAI built in. We’ll also show you how to prompt GenAI models, employ APIs to call GenAI models, and adapt the models’ responses (see Figure 2-1). We’ll look at enterprise use cases of GenAI in the next chapter.

To make it convenient for you to follow along with us, we’ve posted all the prompts and code in this book’s GitHub repository (https://github.com/lakshmanok/visualizing-generative-ai).

Great First Drafts

The general public has rapidly adopted tools that enable consumer uses of GenAI. The public uses GenAI as a general-purpose technology—it is used by multiple age groups, multiple nationalities, and for multiple tasks. ChatGPT gained 100 million users in two months—the fastest product adoption rate in history to date (see Figure 2-2). Just about everyone is using GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Midjourney for quick brainstorming and illustrating slides and reports. Professionals now use them to create art, write headlines for corporate blogs, and create background music ...