Generative AI (1/2): the new wave of AI is coming

While everybody was focused on crypto and web3 during the last two years, behind the scenes something that might have an impact of the same magnitude on the web and perhaps even more was rooting: Generative AI. But it's during the past months that everything seemed to accelerate. It's like every hope we had for AI in the last 20 years has come 10x closer to reality in a matter of weeks. This article is the first of a series of two medium posts regarding Generative AI. Today I'll focus on explaining what it is, how it works, how it emerged and what could be the underlying use cases.