Part 4. Applications and new developments

This part covers some applications of the generative models from earlier chapters as well as some new developments in the field of generative AI.

In chapters 13 and 14, you’ll learn two ways of generating music: MuseGAN, which treats a piece of music as a multidimensional object akin to an image, and Music Transformer, which treats a piece of music as a sequence of musical events. Chapter 15 introduces you to diffusion models, which form the foundation of all leading text-to-image Transformers (such as DALL-E 2 or Imagen). Chapter 16 uses the LangChain library to combine pretrained large language models with Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia APIs to create a zero-shot know-it-all personal assistant.