How to Use generative in a Sentence

generative

adjective
Definition of generativenext
Synonyms for generativenext
  • When you got involved in this project, was the generative aspect of the movie already part of it?
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • For Simons, this meant a fast, generative kind of work.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Some people who use generative AI are apt to take a one-and-done approach.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • To be decolonial is to dream, to imagine, and to be generative.
    — Amanda Alcantara, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
  • There is no precedent for the speed and scale of generative AI, which will hit all white-collar jobs—soon and everywhere.
    — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Every few days or weeks, Art Blocks released a generative art project very much in the vein of Autoglyphs.
    — Sandra Upson, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But in the generative space, that’s just not how this technology works.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • This might be a more complicated question if generative A.I. could live up to the hype.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
  • As the race to build generative AI sped up, the camp pivoted exclusively to AI last year.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • For Calle, desire—in the Freudian sense of longing for what is not there—was a generative formal constraint.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • It can also be applied as a generative act when things are difficult or when the person makes no sense to you.
    — Dede Henley, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • The announcement comes hot off the heels of Microsoft’s own generative AI launch.
    — Daniel Newman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Now, in 2023, those same unions are bracing for the potential impacts of generative AI.
    — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • This is the spot where generative-AI hype seems to come most unmoored from reality.
    — David Karpf, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Going forward, a lot of us are going to have to make that decision about generative AI.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Cohen says the seven artists who opted to let Dream Track replicate their styles did so out of a desire to embrace generative AI on their terms.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It’s being made in secret.
    — Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The update to Siri is at the forefront of a broader effort to embrace generative A.I. across Apple’s business.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • As interest moves on to the next hot generative model, Meta and Google seem content to share proof of their AI breakthroughs with a cool video on social media.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The big change here is leveraging generative AI for on-the-fly searches within other apps in Android.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Tech companies, eager to carve out a piece of a market that could top $6.8 trillion in spending by the decade’s end, argue that their generative AI tools can help.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Despite Google's slowness to market with a breakthrough generative AI product (that the public can use), the story isn't over yet.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
  • He’s also formed a startup called Mythica to use generative AI in video games.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • For many users, the addition of the generative AI feature—presented as a sort of search box thingie—was met with either a shrug or annoyance.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Far from being a waste, enjoyment is generative and restorative, and thus worthy of time and resources.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • But the city’s endless potential for new stories remains the generative force in this new season.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Nov. 2021
  • TikTok users will likely begin to see more and more filters using AI as new generative tools are opened up to more creators.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Amazon denies this and says the generative AI race has barely begun.
    — Spencer Soper, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • At 12 years old, Hayes created the first female-led, all-women generative art collection on the Ethereum blockchain.
    — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Remember, the goal isn’t to perfectly recreate an existing natural system but to create something novel and generative.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024

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