With the advent of ChatGPT, the research of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has made a breakthrough in the field of multimodal information processing, such as text, image, and video, and has attracted broad attention. This paper aims to systematically review the research progress of GAI and to discuss its future development trend. Being divided into three parts, the paper first reviewed the development history and research status of GAI in terms of natural language models, image and multimodal models; secondly, it discussed the application prospects of GAI in different fields, mainly focusing on content communication, assisted design, content creation, personalized customization, and etc. In the third part, with an in-depth analysis of the main challenges facing GAI, the author summarized the development trends of GAI in the future.

artificial intelligence generated content  /  natural language  /  multimodal