If you want to create your own AI app but find it daunting, now you can do that without even
coding and share it with your friends, family and coworkers. And some people even create AI
applications that are so powerful, they are able to build a complete business
on top of them. So let's see how it's done. Thanks to MindStudio for sponsoring this video.
I’ve been playing with this tool recently, and it’s been really fun. It’s sort of like
the toolbox to help you create your own AI apps in a few hours without coding at all. Not just
simple apps, but also pretty sophisticated apps too. It reminds me of Webflow, which is
a very popular no-code website builder. But this is a no-code AI building tool.
Imagine wanting to make an app or a tool but without the need to learn all the complex code
that usually goes into making one. That's what it offers. It's a way for you to create AI apps
that can do time-consuming or tedious tasks for you—like sorting out your daily tasks,
making study sessions easier, analysing data or even scheduling meetings. You can even share
your apps with your team to streamline workflows and speed up redundant tasks.
Now, how do you use it? It's pretty simple. If you have a daily problem that you want to solve
or something that you have to do repeatedly, you can create an app to automate that process
or make it easier with AI. It might sound complicated, but anyone can get the hang
of it after seeing a few examples. So let's take a look inside some of these applications!
If you're new to MindStudio, there's a huge selection of templates you can choose from
to get started quickly. You can see there are content generators, AI assistants, and more.
Let's see a few examples of fully built AIs so you can get the gist of it.
I'm a huge fan of flashcards and I use them every day not just for studying but also for remembering
things like my friends' birthdays and phone numbers as well as recipes and stuff. So let's
try the flashcard generator. Here, you enter what topic you're learning, grade level and how many
cards you want. Say you're studying economics. Now write what specific topic in Economics you want
to learn. Then it will automatically generate a set of cards. But this is pretty simple and
normal right? What makes MindStudio great is that you can create much more complex apps.
To demonstrate that, let's try another one. This time, we're going to use this app called Polyglot
Pal. It's a language learning app where AI teaches you the language you want to study based on your
information like your age, learning style and proficiency. This is already useful, but I want
to add a bit of spin so it's more suitable for my needs. Say I want to get a recap of what I
learned at the end of each lesson and then create a list of flashcards so I can review them later.
Let’s try to build that because it’s pretty easy. First of all, you want to create a new
AI. Here you can start from a template, but there’s not one for something I want to build,
so I’m going to start from scratch. But all I have to do is actually just describe what
kind of thing I want to build, and then MindStudio will automatically generate a
prompt for you so you don’t have to start from nothing. Prompt is the skeleton of an AI app,
so once you have it, you just need to build on top of it.
Now, this is the fun part. It may look a tad scary, but it’s straightforward. Right now,
we can just focus on the centre panel. Let’s start with the model settings. Here we can
choose which model to use for this app. Each model has different strengths. GPT-3.5 turbo
is fast and therefore great for generating quick responses. If your app is about coding,
you can use ones like Code Llama. For this app, I want the response to be fast,
so I’m going to use GPT 3.5 turbo. Temperature is essentially how predictable the AI’s responses
will be. When it’s 0, it will give you the exact same response every time, but if it’s 2,
the responses will be very random and unstable. So it’s generally a good idea to start from 1.
Then the automation tab is where we can add more specific orders for AI. Since I want it to give
me a recap of what I learned after each lesson, what I can do is to simply add a block by clicking
the plus button before the final block. Inside the block, write a message which is a prompt
or instruction for the AI. So in this case, it's something like "When the user indicates
they're done for today's lesson, create a brief of what you taught them today in bullet points.
Then give the user a list of flashcards based on the brief". Now let's see if it actually works.
Hit the preview button and see how it goes. Just start the lesson and once it's enough,
tell it you're done for today. And it did give me a recap and a list of flashcards as I instructed.
But this is only the tip of the iceberg. You can add more complex jobs for the AI. For instance,
say I want it to send me the recap to my messaging app like Slack, you can use a function.
Functions let you do more advanced stuff using Javascripts if you're a tech person. But don't
worry - there are already a bunch of pre-made functions that you can import right away. Here,
I'm going to use Slack, but you can use others like Telegram if you prefer. You just need to
enter some information from your account and you're good to go. Let's see if this
is working. Like before, go to the preview and do a lesson for a bit. When it's done,
let's check Slack. I can see the recap there, so it seems to work pretty well.
This is just a simple addition, but if you wanted, you can customise it so much more to create your
ideal app. For example, here I divided the lesson into 3 so it’s easier to digest,
and at the end of it, it will ask me if I want to continue. If so, it will start another lesson.
But if I want to stop, it will create a recap and flashcards for every word and phrase I learned in
the session and send it to Slack. This was done in just 20 minutes or so without coding at all.
Just like this, there are many things you can do. You can even send things to your
favourite note app using a function. But it's not really just about studying. You can build
apps for business like sales and marketing, coding, finding jobs and parenting. There are
many templates to help you get started depending on the kind of app you want to build. If there's
no template for your app, you can always describe what it does and MindStudio will
automatically generate a scaffolding for it. Then you can start building on top of that.
Right now, it may look a bit overwhelming, but they have a lot of resources to help you get
started. I've gone through the training videos which took me like 30 minutes to get an idea of
how it works. There are two Modules on their YouTube channel - a basic class that is less
than an hour, and then a deeper dive which is also just an hour, called “Module 2.” I
also hopped into their Discord where a ton of people were exchanging tips on build strategy.
Once I watched a few videos, it was just a matter of playing around and figuring out how to use the
tools. So, even without knowing the basics of coding, you get to build really useful AI
apps for yourself and other people. And you can even monetise your app if it's useful to a lot
of people. So give it a try and see what you can build. It's free to start and actually very fun.
You can start using it from the link in the description.
Thank you for watching till the end.