Can Google AI Studio build a costume-guessing webcam app?

Short answer: Jordan Metzner prompts a 'guess my costume' app, and Google AI Studio builds it using the webcam and Gemini, suggesting extra features like a difficulty setting and a timer. It identifies his vampire costume.

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From Episode 19: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Who Built the Smartest AI of All?, starting at 6:44.

Jordan Metzner [6:43]: So why don't we do like a okay. Let's do a guess my costume app where you use the webcam and you guess who I am, who or what I am dressed as for Halloween. Does that sound cool? Alright. So all you gotta do is hit build and Gemini will do its thing. So if you think about this app in general, it's gonna use, some JavaScript on the front. Oh, let me show you some other cool features. Here you can add a difficulty setting, so you can make it more of a game. Okay. Cool. We can add that as a future feature. And then it'll give you some other features, like, you wanna incorporate a timer to increase the excitement? Players will have to guess a costume, so you can add that. Okay. So here's the guess the costume AI. I'm gonna put my vampire teeth in.

Sam Nadler [7:39]: Fixing the wig. Okay. Summoning spirits to guess.

Jordan Metzner [7:45]: A vampire. Alright. So here's what it says. The spirits have spoken. Woo hoo. What a spiky sight. With those gleaming things and the glowy silver locks and that magnificent ruffled shirt, you've sunk your teeth straight into the classic elegance of a vampire. I bet you're ready to charm the blood out of everyone at this Halloween party tonight. Okay. So alright. So, yeah, this was all built, obviously, using the Google AI Studio. Here, you can see kind of what it did. It uses the webcam. It uses Gemini. And, yeah, they made it a little like Halloween style.

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