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🗞️ AI News of The Week: 🇺🇸 America’s AI Action Plan
The America’s AI Action Plan is the U.S. government’s blueprint to ‘win the AI race’ globally, technologically, economically, and militarily.
Explain Like I’m 5 Version:
The government wrote a big plan about how to win the AI race and use AI to make sure everyone is safe, and help families, workers, and businesses. It is a giant team project with 3 main goals.
3 Big Goals:
Faster, Better Ideas and Inventions (Innovation…private sector AI breakthroughs)
Build the Biggest and Best Playground for AI (Infrastructure…energy, chips, data centers)
Be the Leader and Good Example for the World (Diplomacy…exporting American AI and countering global threats).
Highlights:
Cutting Red Tape: The plan will remove old or confusing rules, making it easier and faster for businesses to experiment with and adopt AI.
Support for Open AI: Push for open-source AI, letting startups and creators use and improve smart tools without expensive fees or hidden rules.
Tech Fairness: New focus on making sure AI is free from political or social bias, and that tools funded by the government tell the truth.
More Resources: Efforts to make AI computing power more affordable and available—even for creators and small businesses, not just the giants.
Safe AI Playground: New data centers and stronger internet will be built out, making AI safer and more reliable for everyone to use.
Skills for Workers: Special programs will help Americans learn AI skills, so workers and entrepreneurs aren’t left behind in the robot revolution.
Innovation Zones: New “regulatory sandboxes” will let startups test smart ideas with fewer risks and faster feedback from government and customers.
Protecting Inventions: Stronger protections to keep American inventions safe from theft and misuse by bad actors, both at home and abroad.
In Short:
The White House wants to help everyone in America, especially creators and small businesses, use AI tools by breaking down old rules, making technology fair and open, and giving access to the best “playgrounds” and training for the future. It’s a big deal!
Download America AI Action Plan PDF
🧠 AI Term of The Week: 💬 Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Definition:
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the field of AI focused on helping computers understand, interpret, and generate human language.
AI techniques for understanding and generating human language, like in chatbots or translations.
Example:
A chatbot answers your questions by understanding and responding in natural language.
💬 Quote of the Week:
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
🧰 AI Tool of The Week: Runway ML
Runway ML is a powerhouse for creative professionals, especially in video and image generation.
Runway is an AI-powered creative platform that enables users to generate, edit, and enhance videos, images, audio, and 3D assets using advanced generative artificial intelligence models. It is especially known for its text-to-video and image-to-video generation tools, allowing users to create videos simply from written prompts, static images, or other video inputs
🎥 Especially handy for: Content Creators, YouTubers, filmmakers, designers, and storytellers.
Try it here: Runway ML
🛠 What I Made:
AI Foundation #1: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Welcome to AI Foundations...a new 25-part series designed to help content creators and small business owners understand essential AI concepts, one term at a time.
– Mike Murphy
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Make a living as a content creator.
💬 Natural Language Processing (NLP)
✨ “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”– Socrates