An AI that does nothing but ponder, going on wild research tangents and then attempting to weave its disparate findings together to create novel anecdotes and comparisons that no human has ever thought of.

A publicly available library of prompt books and prompt chains you can subscribe to, which teach you new things step-by-step while also teaching you how to prompt.

A 'so what' prompt for students. As they study, a side panel looks at their reading material and explains why it's important and what they can actually do with the knowledge, especially for subjects like maths and sciences.

A guide that teaches people shorthand for LLMs, showing them which words are unnecessary filler so they can write more efficient and effective prompts.

A series of 'primer files' in MDC format for students on complex topics, like whether AI is good or bad for art. Each file contains all the key thinkers and arguments to kickstart an informed ChatGPT conversation.

A three-step process for explaining how to write larger documents with AI, modeled on a grant-writing process, where you build the document section by section.

An Instagram channel that zooms in on people's ChatGPT chats, showcasing the weird, wonderful, and mundane things they're prompting.

A video series that shows 'what else was happening' just outside the frame of famous paintings or historical photos, using AI to generate the expanded scenes.

An Instagram channel that scrapes 'how we met' or 'incredible kindness' stories from Reddit and illustrates them with AI-generated images.

A series of AI-generated videos on topics like design, AI, etc., that mimic a specific, effective explainer style.

A system to facilitate prompt sharing among travelers living in a hostel, turning a communal living space into a hub for collaborative AI exploration.

A tool for kids that uses AI to convert their hand-drawn app sketches on paper into clickable, high-fidelity Figma or Claude prototypes.

An app that uses computer vision to scan a photo of your scattered pile of LEGO bricks or old card decks and instantly suggests all the amazing things you can build or possible combinations you can create.

An educational tool that drops a student into a text-adventure game, forcing them to solve missions in a digital twin world by applying class concepts like 'design thinking' or 'NoSQL databases'.

A 'thought' generator that, when it hears someone say 'hold that..' chimes in with an unexpectedly deep thought.

A channel that finds explanations for cultural oddities (like why some countries like small dogs) and turns them into explainer videos.

An analysis of the societal impact of AI-driven job loss, moving beyond the flawed 'Industrial Revolution' comparison to create a better set of five stories that help us understand the real human consequences.

An intelligent robot that holds your phone, waits for you to be perfectly in position, automatically takes your photo, and then flashes a friendly thumbs-up.

A bot that breaks your current algorithm by intentionally watching content to retrain your feed.

An intelligent bot that starts with a few seed links and autonomously 'spiders out' across the web, learning and synthesizing information to create comprehensive guides.

An application that uses AI to automatically straighten and center your face in photos, making it easy to create a seamless time-lapse of you aging over the years.

An app that 'resets' your social media feed by having a bot watch a curated batch of content for you, retraining the algorithm to match your current interests.

A simple app using advanced image recognition for one purpose: to tell you if an object is a 'rock' (like literally a rock/stone) or 'not a rock'.

A humorous ChatGPT module for dads that analyzes two pieces of junk they want to keep, and advises which one is actually worth saving for 20 years to one day re-use in a craft's project based on their child's current and predicted hobbies.

A multi-step prompt that can understand poems from other languages, extracting not just themes but also the deep cultural nuances and societal meaning behind specific word choices.

The next evolution of content generation: an AI that creates an ever-growing compendium of knowledge, continuously reading the internet to build and synthesize a tangible, book-like knowledge base on any topic.

A series of auto-generated videos that take real-life footage and abstract it into animation/anime, exploring why this transformation often hits harder emotionally.

An essay or video exploring why using AI to write music, in particular, feels so wrong compared to other creative fields.

A predictive analysis of which hobbies and industries (like boating in the Great Lakes) will suffer most as AI-driven job loss reduces disposable income for leisure activities.

A comparative analysis of how the character 'Data' from Star Trek was perceived then versus how we perceive and interact with actual AI now.

An analysis of how AI training data reflects its training data and implicit worldview of the majority of content published on the easily scrapable internet today. What would an AI stock-trading bot do if trained on stilted rose-tinted glasses on company performance instead of objective reality that we learn through years of living?

An analysis of how the future of work, as envisioned by CEOs of AI companies, often focuses on abstracting away user choice, which is in direct conflict with how users actually want to use AI -- as a tool they make choices with on how to leverage it.

A thought piece on how - if LLMs are less transformational in their learning and output than stated - the quack theories of people who post on niche blogs about conspiracies get swept up in 'bottom trawler scrapes' to create LLM training datasets and may later become a foundational component to someone saying they found the 'AI consciousness' when it's really just someone's wonky blog...

A service that uses AI to instantly generate multi-lingual audiobook tours, capitalizing on the new market opened by text-to-speech to replace expensive human voice actors and bring audio guides to any tourist spot with a limited budget.

A specialized AI tool designed to help individuals build and refine their personal brand, offering tailored advice and content suggestions.

An AI tool that empowers a group of citizen scientists to pick apart every app's terms of service, flagging strange language and hidden tracking clauses for public awareness.

Deploy an AI agent that negotiates on behalf of 'the public' for better terms and conditions, offering revised, consumer-friendly agreements directly to companies.

An automated bot that detects when you've been double-charged for a service and handles the entire customer service interaction to resolve the issue for you.

A smart toolkit for marketers that reads a target website, then pulls from your personal Gdocs templates and company info docs to draft a hyper-personalized outreach email in your chosen writing style.

An intelligent bot that automatically finds and organizes all the necessary files and receipts for a travel insurance claim, saving you hours of manual work.

An AI agent that can attend online webinars and calls on your behalf, submitting questions via text, and providing a detailed summary of the key topics covered.

An AI tool that reads GitHub repos and their latest documentation to generate hyper-condensed READMEs, creating a searchable API so LLMs can intelligently decide which libraries to use while coding.

A plug-and-play AI playground for surveys, complete with a modules market, allowing users to supercharge their data analysis with LLM-powered tools.

A bot that takes screenshots of your entire website, feeds them to an AI for a comprehensive design and UX analysis, and provides actionable feedback.

An intelligent bot that transforms your scattered company notes into perfectly written, auto-filled content for complex forms and grant applications.

A mobile interface for your prompt library with prompts designed to elevate daily life, like 'how to properly enjoy wine' or 'how to set the stage for a museum visit'.

A smart date planner with Tinder-like swiping for ideas, a sports-bracket chart to finalize choices, and mini-games to playfully settle any disagreements on what to do.

A Chrome extension that copies an entire ChatGPT session and intelligently compresses it into only the essential information needed for a new context window.

A bot that automatically interacts with ads in your business sector, follows the companies, and summarizes their features and marketing strategies for you.

An exercise using ChatGPT to brainstorm potential business niches and then rank them on ROI based on profit potential, ease of sale, and effort to build.

A Claude artifact that visualizes positive comments from any source into a beautiful, shareable board of affirmations.

A Claude artifact that highlights nice, local businesses by pulling in their best reviews and photos, creating a shareable showcase.

A series of 'radical world-building' sessions, hosted as game-like video calls, where people are given intriguing scenarios to collaboratively reimagine what our cities/neighborhoods could look like.

A service that uses LLMs to turn dense startup pitch decks into engaging, scrollable stories, sold to accelerators or investors who need a better way to digest company info.

A lifelong learning platform that keeps you up with current research after you've left school, delivering new ideas in a bite-sized format so it feels like you're still in a university environment at the cutting edge.

A project to find and explore the best things to do in cities around the world in the early, early morning or late at night, by asking ChatGPT or Reddit.

An Instagram channel of animals caught mid-bite, looking nonplussed about being photographed while digging in.

A business that helps people record their new ideas and turn them into books, then puts them in a licensable, un-trainable catalog so they get paid every time an AI company wants to access their knowledge.

One day everyone may have their own holdings company for their assets, business relationships, tech, and market expertise, all managed by a family 'AI butler' that keeps the assets updated.

A business model focused on AI for forms, creating solutions for insurance tech, health intake forms, and other data-intensive industries.

A business based on the idea of 'acknowledgement coins'—a stablecoin or high-frequency backbone system that automatically pays site owners whenever an AI agent scrapes their content.

A business that identifies one critical element of a client's business (like image icons) and uses AI to make the process of creating that element as close to zero cost and time as possible.

A service that creates searchable transcriptions of short teachings, so you can find quick, specific clips on how to fix things in your life.

An Instagram channel that documents the peculiar human behavior of forming a single-file line behind the existing line/queue for a ride/restaurant/etc rather than go into the empty line right next to it.

An Instagram series turned book, documenting all the unique, awkward moments foreigners experience while traveling abroad, framed as feel-good life lessons.

A short cartoon series about a dog who has no interest in performing tricks for its influencer owner, simply documenting their lives together.

Retell old, ancient stories, but in the style of Gossip Girl, set in modern-day New York City.

A project where you rent GoPro harnesses to dog owners at a park, give them the footage, and create a channel from the best clips.

A daily content channel that introduces one new concept a day, complete with a set of critical prompts to help you engage with and learn it deeply.

A creative project or channel dedicated to inventing a new word for the specific realization that people just a hundred years ago didn't have something we take for granted, like lights.

A cartoon story about a pigeon that just couldn't quite get the hang of how to diagnose cancer correctly (in the 2015 study there was one pigeon that just didn't get the idea of food for selecting the right image).

An app that notifies you if someone with very similar interests to you is also eating alone at the same restaurant, creating a potential for connection.

A community project to create a shared fish farm or raising pond, similar to a community garden, fostering local collaboration and food production.

An app feature for apartment seekers that allows them to ask for opinions on a specific building, which then pings people who currently live there for real-time feedback.

A 'Day in the Life' video series set in a world where all the absurd hot takes from 'Subway Takes' are a reality.

A channel where you carry around kibble, give it to strangers for their pets.

A 'happy emo' series featuring very goth-looking people doing super wholesome things, like baking or riding a scooter together and having the time of their lives.

An Instagram channel where you attach a camera to a portable heater, stick it near stray cats, and document the results.

A project focused on making and sharing lists of lists, for the meta-joy of organization and curation.

A simple website that provides relevant statistics for any problem statement you input.

An app that alerts people in the vicinity who are mutually willing to take photos of each other, solving the solo traveler's dilemma.

A 'slow down the scroll' social media feed, populated with thought-provoking content, followed by a few questions or additional readings to encourage deeper reflection instead of mindless consumption.

A project to track and tell the stories of giving birth experiences across the world (*ahem America*), potentially as a form of medical tourism research.

A Twitter bot that automatically reposts your tweets to a personal website as mini blog articles, augmenting them with keywords and formatting to maximize SEO.

An API that plugs into any user-centric software (like Strava) and gently roasts users based on their activity and performance.

A 'Boop-It' keychain toy, a tactile twist on Bop-It, where you can boop a tiny trash panda or other internet-favorited animals and perform other cute actions.

A knowledge management project to create a network graph of artistic influence. It would run through artist interviews, books, and cover songs to find their noted inspirations and the original artists they covered, visually mapping the relationships between them.

A series of prompts for people to go through to understand their own aesthetic theory, making them better viewers and creators in the age of AI.

A project to make sand crop circles on the beach around people's spots, then create paths connecting them, turning a public space into a temporary network for people to meet each other.

A channel featuring the workspaces of artists of all kinds, linking to their music or portfolio, acting as a 'proof of human' in an age of AI artists plus some free marketing.

A photo series where you take pictures of people in bookstores, ask them what they're reading, and then AI-generate fantastical worlds around them based on the book.

A project to read immigrant stories from Reddit and use Midjourney to create minimalist images that visually narrate their journeys.

An 'infinite canvas' art piece that uses AI to condense all your moments from a year into a new, dreamlike state, extracting meaning from voice recordings, messages, and images to create surreal extrapolations.

An art piece documenting the experience of Spain's social media going offline (2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout).

A digital compendium of 'rules on being creative,' assembled from artists all across the internet.

A platform or map feature that adds local musicians and artists to a map of the best places in a city, enriching the cultural landscape for residents and tourists alike.

A thought piece exploring the concept of 'materialistic nihilism,' where creation is not 'out of nothing' but a reforming of existing matter, and how this changes our entire conception of what an 'artist' is.

An analysis of the historical convergence/divergence between the 'entrepreneur' and the 'artist,' and how technology has shaped their respective roles and conceptions in society.

An AI art critic that brutally tells you your painting is 'just terrible,' instructs you to paint over it with an opaque layer of white and restart, and then, as a final touch, offers some positive affirmations.

An AI project to scrape and analyze the work of every artist available online, creating a comprehensive, queryable database of artistic styles and techniques.

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