diff --git a/website/learn/genai/dnn.md b/website/learn/genai/dnn.md index 1ffe7bc4..e62f31bd 100644 --- a/website/learn/genai/dnn.md +++ b/website/learn/genai/dnn.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Learn the origins of AI from the perceptron to deep neural networks, covering ke ## The Perceptron -Back in 1958, [Frank Rosenblatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rosenblatt) believed computers should be able to recognize people and call out their names and instantly translate speech in one language or writing in another language. +Back in 1958, [Frank Rosenblatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rosenblatt) believed that computers should be able to recognize people and call out their names, instantly translate speech in some language to another, or write in another language.
New York Times 1958 on Frank Rosenblatt
diff --git a/website/learn/intro.md b/website/learn/intro.md index 5bde123e..3bc99c9a 100644 --- a/website/learn/intro.md +++ b/website/learn/intro.md @@ -4,15 +4,15 @@ sidebar_position: 1 # Intro -**What is Hal9?** Hal9 is a platform to help you write your own versions of ChatGPT -- We refer to those applications as Generative Apps since they use GenAI. +**What is Hal9?** Hal9 is a platform to help you write and create your own versions of ChatGPT -- We refer to these applications as Generative Apps since they use Generative AI. ### Generative AI -Generative Artificial Intelligence (**GenAI**), a version of Artificial Intelligence (**AI**) that is good at generating content: text, images, sounds, videos, code, etc. +Generative Artificial Intelligence (**GenAI**) is a version of Artificial Intelligence (**AI**) that is good at generating various content: text, images, sounds, videos, code, etc. -The previous version of GenAI, refered to as AI, was based on Deep Neural Networks (**DNN**), which are brain-inspired math equations optimized useful for content classificaiton. For example, it enabled computers to identify if pixels in an image represent a cat, or understand if text is written in Spanish. +The previous version of GenAI (referred to as AI) was based on Deep Neural Networks (**DNN**), which are brain-inspired math equations optimized for content classification. For example, it enabled computers to identify if pixels in an image represent a cat or dog, or if some text is written in Spanish or English. -GenAI uses AI in the opposite way -- not to classify, but to generate content on its own. For example, generate pixels for a cat image, or generate text in Spanish. +GenAI uses AI in the opposite way -- not to classify, but to generate and create new content. For example, to generate a pixel image of a cat, or a response to some text in Spanish. A response from ChatGPT would be another example of GenAI in action. Head next to the [Deep Neural Networks](genai/dnn) section to learn the foundations that lead us to Generative AI. @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ Head next to the [Deep Neural Networks](genai/dnn) section to learn the foundati Generative Applications (**GenApps**) are software applications (**apps**) written with code that make use of GenAI. -ChatGPT popularized using chatbots as the main interface for these GenApps, other services like MidJourney also used chat interfaces like Disscord, but we are starting to see other interfaces like ChatGPT 4o that run in mobile phones and can understand voice and video without a chat interface. In the not so distant future, we might see GenApps that run in Zoom or even robots like Tesla's Optimus. +ChatGPT popularized using chatbots as the main interface for these GenApps, but other services like MidJourney also used social media interfaces like Discord. We are starting to see other interfaces like ChatGPT-4o that run in mobile phones and can understand voice and video without a chat interface, where in the not so distant future we might see GenApps that run in Zoom or even on robots like Tesla's Optimus. -New developer jobs will likely require writing code for such new applications to help GenAI learn faster, modify their default behavior, or help them solve harder problems. +New developer jobs will likely require writing code for such new applications to help GenAI learn faster, modify their behavior, or solve harder problems. -For example, even if an AI or a robot was capbale of flying a airplane autonomously, developers might want to write code that double checks that the landing is safe, connects to the best weather services, or provides flight updates to passengers. +For example, even if an AI or a robot was capable of flying an airplane autonomously, developers might want to write code that double checks that the landing is safe, connects to the best weather services, provides flight updates to passengers, etc. -We don't know exactly what the new GenApps will look like and how our jobs or world will transform, but we are optimistic that GenApps will help us solve the hard problems the world is facing in healthcare, education, climate, energy, space exploration, entertaiment, and so on. +We don't know exactly what the new GenApps will look like and how our jobs or world will transform, but we are optimistic that GenApps will help us solve hard problems the world is facing in healthcare, education, climate, energy, space exploration, entertaiment, and so on. Read the [Applications](genapps/intro) section as the first step towards learning how to create Generative Applications.