Definition of generative
: having the power or function of generating, originating, producing, or reproducing
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Jamison is interested in something else: the possibility that sobriety can form its own kind of legend, no less electric, and more generative in the end.
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The tenets of the ancients give his works gas: Nature is generative; painting aims not to depict it, but to embody it.
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The meaning is called out of this generative mixture.
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But the vineyard heartbreak has been generative, too, forcing Edmunds toward new terroir.
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The hollow is rich and generative, a lacuna of a kind Ball has mastered.
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One method for doing this, called a generative adversarial network (GAN), involves creating a sort of competition between two AI networks.
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With a dataset in place, the researchers used a two-step process to create the generative video.
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Gene Kogan, a generative artist and author of Machine Learning for Artists used similar methods to make nonexistent yet realistic images of places, like boathouses and buttes.
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First Known Use of generative
14th century
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medical Definition of generative
: having the power or function of propagating or reproducing
- generative organs
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