Live DEMO: We Build 3 AI Apps (In Under An Hour!)
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So what if you could build an entire AI app before your latte cools down? Today, we're going to put that to the test. We're going to build three apps in one hour, zero headache. Welcome, humans. I'm Corey, joined as always here on the Neuron podcast by the ever-curious Grant Harvey. How's it going, Grant?
Good, Corey. How are you doing today?
Good, good. Doing well. Kind of excited about our little challenge here today. So we're going to strap on our dev goggles, which you should know I don't own. I am not a developer. I'm not a software engineer. But we're going to make this happen anyways. And we're going to dive into Google AI Studios App Builder to see if we can whip up three very different apps. A practical one that has reasonable needs, a fun one, and one that's just kind of off the rails. So all in one episode in one hour. Grant, you want to talk a little about AI Studio? Kind of explain what it is and how it works?
Yeah, definitely. So AI Studio is Google's, you could call it its studio for AI app builders.
Like the playground on OpenAI, kind of.
Exactly. So if anyone's ever used the Playground or done anything with APIs at all with OpenAI, this AI Studio is basically Google's equivalent version of the Playground. So what that means is that you can go to AI Studio for free and test prompts and do a whole lot more than that to see how it will react in an actual environment and if you wanted to then go and deploy that prompt or even an application in production. So does that make sense?
That makes a lot of sense. And it's pretty crazy. I think for me, you know, I saw a lot of the early apps, you know, when Cursor and Replit and all these were dropping, it was all really interesting. But like, you know, and people said, you know, you can do this with no coding experience. Yeah, you kind of could. But it wasn't necessarily good, and it was really intimidating. And what intrigues me here is this doesn't feel as intimidating to look at, to watch it work, to be able to talk back and forth with it in natural language. And those others maybe as well. I don't mean to jab on anything. But you mentioned deploying, and that's a thing that really excites me.
So here I have just like a very basic window. This is AI studio, but I have it on the build apps tab right now. So if you see right here, you can go, there's four different options. You can chat, which this is just a basic, send a prompt as a test, show me what you can do. And we'll send that and that just runs it. So here you have, Gemini is thinking. You can watch the thoughts here, and then it gives you an answer.
It's fast in here, too.
Yeah, definitely. There's a little side panel where you can choose the actual model that you want to run here. Flashlight is the new one that just came out. So 2.5 Pro is the best one. And then what's cool about this is you can then add system instructions. So you can give a prompt, but then you can also test system instructions that you would run with that prompt if you were going to put this in your own app. So besides chat, you can stream. You can generate media, which this is like images, video. Streaming is you're actually talking to it live. You can share your screen, share a webcam, which is pretty amazing.
ABM kind of comparable, right? Same type of tool?
Yeah. Exactly. Advanced voice mode is what you're talking about there. Oh, yeah. Sorry.
Yeah.
For folks who don't know.
Yeah.
And then this one, which is build apps with Gemini. So this is what you're talking about here when you say that you can deploy it. So what this means is, let's say we were going to say, let's make a dynamic test game with Gemini. This is not one of our three. This is just one of their pre-built options here. As it goes through and begins building this application, You can then, once it's done, deploy it on Google Cloud really easily. And we'll show you exactly how that works. It's like a one-click button, which is pretty cool.
Grant, you know, I think something important to address here early on is the amount of skill required to use this tool.
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