Generative AI: A Review on Models and Applications

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands as a transformative paradigm in machine learning, enabling the creation of complex and realistic data from latent representations. This review paper comprehensively surveys the landscape of Generative AI, encompassing its foundational concepts, diverse models, training methodologies, applications, challenges, recent advancements, evaluation metrics, and ethical dimensions. The paper begins by introducing Generative AI's significance across various domains, presenting its pivotal role in producing synthetic data with applications spanning image synthesis, text generation, music composition, drug discovery, and more. The objectives lie in elucidating the foundational concepts, delving into model intricacies, unveiling the training procedures, exploring its application landscape, addressing challenges, envisioning future directions, and discussing ethical ramifications. The foundational section elucidates the diverse array of generative models, including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), flow-based models, Generative Reinforcement Learning (GRL), and advanced hybrid architectures. Subsequently, evaluation metrics ranging from Inception Score to perceptual similarity metrics and human evaluations are surveyed to assess generative model performance. Finally, ethical considerations underscore the necessity for addressing biases, misuse, intellectual property concerns, and the call for responsible AI development and regulation in the Generative AI landscape.