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title: _generative AI_
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  **Generative AI** is AI that produces new output — such as code, text, or
  improved service delivery — from a request. In this channel's material it
  appears as (1) a technology governments deploy and train workers in, e.g. New
  Jersey training 61,000 state employees to upskill rather than replace them
  [^a4e2cb1a-b533-59c5-9766-cc27d015e765], and (2) the foundation for building
  AI products and startups quickly from fuzzy ideas.
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# \_generative AI\_

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## Definition

**Generative AI** is AI that produces new output — such as code, text, or improved service delivery — from a request. In this channel's material it appears as (1) a technology governments deploy and train workers in, e.g. New Jersey training 61,000 state employees to upskill rather than replace them [^a4e2cb1a-b533-59c5-9766-cc27d015e765], and (2) the foundation for building AI products and startups quickly from fuzzy ideas.

**_Generative AI_** is AI that produces new content — and in this channel's material it shows up in two very different arenas. The definition that carries across both: AI systems that can generate usable output from a request, whether that output is code or improved public services.In the interview with **New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy**, generative AI is treated as a realm governments operate in, not just a technology to regulate. New Jersey has **trained 61,000 state employees in generative AI** and applies it to improve services like call centers and unemployment insurance — with the explicit aim of **upskilling workers rather than replacing them**. [^a4e2cb1a-b533-59c5-9766-cc27d015e765] Murphy pairs this internal adoption with his argument that regulation should happen at the national level rather than state by state. [^a4e2cb1a-b533-59c5-9766-cc27d015e765@23][^a4e2cb1a-b533-59c5-9766-cc27d015e765@79]Across the channel's material on building AI products and startups, generative AI is the engine founders build on — the reason a fuzzy idea can become a validated, working product fast, without deep engineering skills, and the core of how products find a sticky interaction and grow through distribution.- **Generative AI** = AI that generates usable output from a request — in this material, from government service improvements to AI-built products.- New Jersey's approach: **train the workforce** (61,000 state employees) and improve services, aiming to **upskill rather than replace**.- The same technology is the foundation the channel's founders use to move from idea to validated AI product or startup.