Generative AI as a Paradigm

Presents generation as a paradigm: modelling distributions and generating text, images, audio and more, and how this changes the conception of intelligence and creativity. Excludes foundation models as an engineering phenomenon, which belong to 5.1, image and video generation as a task, which belongs to 4.3, and the history of its emergence, which belongs to 1.8.

• 1.8 Foundation and Generative Models
• 4.3 Computer Vision and Video
• 5.1 Foundation Models and General-Purpose AI

• 3.1 Symbolic AI
• 3.2 Probabilistic and Causal AI
• 3.3 Connectionism and Neural Networks
• 3.4 Evolutionary Methods and Reinforcement
• 3.6 Agentic AI
• 3.7 World Models and Physical AI