James Steinberg
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Building AI & Robots in Public by dropping hats on New Yorkers | Views: +1,329 | | 30u30 Acquired YC Founder
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In honor of
@levelsio
pivot into a fitness guru, I'm releasing a free chrome extension that blocks your internet every hour until you do 10 full real pushups on camera. DM or comment if you want to have free beta access this week.
Completely free and opensource demo in the
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A visually impaired friend is one of the first people to get access to OpenAI's GPT4 Image Recognition. Something the rest of us won't have for another year. I have been testing it out to see what it can do
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Dropping hats on you with AI
Here's a recap of all the AI projects this week and hype for all to be made next week. I will show how to make every single one
@buildinpublic
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
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I only caught bits and pieces of the lecture but I think I got the gist
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
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AI Shadow puppet shows of the future! Combining object detection from Roboflow with a Controlnet-scribble from Replicate to improve my terrible bunnies in realtime
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I am going to continue launching a new AI startup every day until
@natfriedman
,
@garrytan
, and
@bhorowitz
lead my series B (I am skipping seed and A). You cannot stop me. Tomorrow's the one that will blow them away I can feel it
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Since its the
#1
on hackernews, I thought I would share my new business here. I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers. We are already open
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This morning was difficult. 3 out of 30 successful head lands. Taking wind into account next.
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I'm in a competition against a 15 year old in a public restroom. My entire career has led up to this
these builders have entered the room.
6 weeks.
a chance at $100,000.
bring any idea you wanna work on.
create your own character at
@_nightsweekends
.
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It turns out the best mix for workout detection is a mix of running object detection and keypoint detection at the same time. I haven't seen anyone else combine multiple models all running live in your browser before
Also I removed the creepy face dots, it was not motivating
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Watch Reddit, Sports, or do secret research in public.
I made a free chrome extension that mutes and covers your screen when you look away from it.
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Hello my name is James. I work on hats and cats. Feel free to say hi and what you work on
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BREAKING HAT DROP UPDATE: I am taking the wind changes outside my window into account
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Now the victory sign will send your whiteboard to OpenAI GPT4 to solve for you
I forgot what the ∑ symbols will do, someone more into math should try a formula
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Next week I will beta test some hat drops. If you have a New York City head and are okay with a few beta tests, the hats will be free afterwards. DM / comment / sign up on the website. I will be reaching out to all soon
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Was updating my AI Rock Paper Scissors game with some new hardware. Why don't we stop fighting eachother and band together against robots?
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Robot Day 1 vs Robot installed in our first store in Manhattan. Big milestone for us!
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Playing AI real hand tennis in front of a real world hand tennis match with a
@charliebholtz
demo
We are going back and forth like some kind game
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Video from the latest drop as an example. Cropping when sending the video to the model makes the AI object detection much faster.
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Just want to say thanks
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
, my hat dropping project is now officially sponsored
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Dudes will literally change the trajectory of the world by waking up one day and saying "what if I got really into hats or something haha" and I think that's awesome
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In 2021, I was put in the Asian Forbes 30 under 30. This was a bit confusing as I never applied, was not under 30, and was not even with that company anymore (I was actively suing them for fraud). I am also quite certain I’m not Asian.
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If you want to make a successful startup is it best to pay
@levelsio
$29.99,
@nikitabier
$1,400, or
@ycombinator
7% of your equity?
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@KennethCassel
I would love to see tiny robots fighting. I always thoughts megabots would have been successful if tiny and could do more matches / completely destroy eachother
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Building a sorting robot for optometrists from nothing in 4 months
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This project is not done until the hats fall on my head without even looking up and no hands involved. Reworking the mechanism this weekend. I think I have solved it
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
!
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oh my gosh
@charliebholtz
I was just prototyping CharlieBall myself, I mean what are the odds??
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Someone DM’d me just to complain all my websites look like they are from the 90s
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A typical morning in our new robotics lab. The whole floor is about a football field.
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GPT4 Demo can summarize details of images along with the input text
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Version 1 of a novel game idea with like AI object detection. Has anyone else seen anything like this?
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We have automatic pushup counting!
It turns out to be almost exactly the same as situps except you just check when the elbows are below the shoulders.
Fortunately, with the beta testers this is the most reliable one to count from a large number of angles.
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I just finished the first MVP (be kind) of my AI assisted jigsaw puzzle solver. Inspired by
@MarkRober
and
@ryanzip
.
I think rather than competing, AI could help us do important things like give us puzzle hints and gently shout at us.
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Is anyone else interested in being Facetimed by lonely cats throughout the day?
made this app for all the cats I housesit, I want to name it "catcalling"
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School children have been making web comics on one of my websites. Some video for this
@_buildspace
demo day thing
#_nightsweekends
#_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
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The rate of AI progress is fast, 8 days ago on r/ComputerVision subreddit:
The Poster: Need to count objects from these images with 99% accuracy. But there is no absolute dataset of this. Can anyone help me with it?
The Comments: As someone that has had to build high accuracy
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Hopefully someone resonates with this today. If you're making something give me a message, I'll check it out.
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Here’s a minute of calm robot sorting. This current design has run 400+ times without a single crash
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One of the first failed iterations before hats was "Drip Coffee" with the idea of piping hot coffee going into the customer's open mouth. In the brainstorming phase there are no bad ideas.
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Telling a completely true story concerning the fate of humanity
@_buildspace
or
@_nightsweekends
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Exactly 1 year of robot building. Up to the 6th iteration of the robot. In preparation to replace the 5th (mostly broken one) in our first optometry store
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It has been 7 undefeated hours and I still haven't slept all night. I am disappointed with the competition. I am now giving everyone a chance with a staring contest.
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
Who is a worthy challenger?
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We got AI counting abs!
Similar to squats, I found it works best with all the variations people can do by simply checking when your shoulders get above your knees.
Unlike squats, you could have gotten a free situp when you first sit down which I didn't like so now it checks
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Stop rating your cat loaf the ancient way. Use artificial intelligence
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I made this AI Chrome extension (opensource!) that searches parts of videos I click on for more information.
I watching the Olympics all last week and had no idea who was becoming a meme or who anyone was really.
With this, I just click on them and it searches their face.
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Everyone believes AI will replace us all. I don’t.
I'm testing who is more interesting.
Any tweet at my account with the word JamesGPT will automatically go to GPT4. The rest goes to me. We will both post equally. As usual, humanity gets a headstart.
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I have been patiently waiting for the robot controlled "Robert Fried Chicken" to open in midtown for 18 months now. It's one of the only consumer robot arm restaurants to prove its profitability over 6 locations and not just be a gimmick.
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I couldn't sleep so here's a live demo of elonman. It's an interactive comic maker where you can drag and drop pictures, videos, sound, youtube, AI images, to make comics & games.
Some random Spanish and Taiwanese school children have found it and I learned a lot about Leoparda
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I am spending the day playing Play Rock, Paper, Scissors against you. Who thinks they can beat me??
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Imagine trying to run away from someone who is using Facebook's new Segment Anything AI
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We are moving the robot making to a bigger office with slightly better lighting
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I also used Grok 2 to code this
Playing AI real hand tennis in front of a real world hand tennis match with a
@charliebholtz
demo
We are going back and forth like some kind game
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It’s Friday and we couldn’t agree what chessboard to buy for the office until someone suggested making one
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Playing around with facial search and found an Instagram photographer caught me eating pizza a year ago in the street and I never knew. Thanks
@sachaker
and also for not murdering me.
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@tomgreenlive
1. Sending hotdogs around the globe to fight youth crime
2. Undercutters Pizza
3. Shaving with Lord Sheffield
4. Using a department store intercom
5.Buying some condoms
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This week doing all AI Chrome Extensions. Leave a comment if you want the code you can mess around and upload to the public store for yourself
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Have you ever had someone ruin an otherwise good video shot? I am using SAM2 to select and remove any disturbances and using generative AI inpainting to cover it up.
It works best with disturbances in background more than the foreground.
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Despite repeated tries, Meta's SAM2 is still no match at the tracking a cat can do in realtime. There are still other uses video segmentation can be great for
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The first steps of robot number 3. We calling it kangaroobot 3.
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Over 2,500 Cats have been rated on how they sit like bread and growing - should I make a public gallery?
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AI Chrome Extension v2 will now block your internet every hour until you do pushups, squats or crunches on camera.
Now we have the full workout. The crunches are the least reliable but its good enough for beta testers.
Watched too many fitness youtube videos to train these
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@ruth_hook_
Everyone I know like this goes on far too many dates. Why not just do it when you are really excited
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I’ve launched 23 startups over the last decade and the last 6 were built with
@czue
’s
@saaspegasus
. Every website after will be too
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Robot moves. Camera live. Touchscreen works. All the parts coming together.
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POV: You wake up as a robot arm. Your entire life’s purpose is to grab boxes with little numbers on them
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I want to stress to hackernews readers my hats have never fallen on a baby and to insinuate this is even possible is slander. Regardless, my lab is at work on an anti baby update that will make this even more impossible
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Elvis died to eat this sandwich at the height of his wealth and fame. It must be delicious
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Hi I'm James and you're watching the Disney Channel
Come join me:
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Trained an AI model on tiktok virtual gifts and their costs to see live stream spending live
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The monuments are open 24 hours and nobody takes advantage of this at 3am
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I’m sorry I haven’t made a slide yet
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
, I had a fever dream of the future and needed to build it and I’ll be on the front page of hacker news tomorrow. I’ll do the slides Monday
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Fully improved AI counting squat counting! Try it out live!
I did not expect squats to be the first exercise I could reliably count with AI.
Only squats where the waist gets below the knees will count. Pushups and situps are next.
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For this week only, the hats will only be berets in honor of the olympics. They were giving out these hats from the medical team?
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How to be a successful Indie hacker from my research:
- Be Dutch, but live in like Vietnam for some reason
- Refuse to collaborate with ANYONE, especially if they are your friends and building basically the same products
- Make dozens of similar websites so people don’t know
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Added instructions for hosting your own multiplayer AI games with
@vercel
to the homepage. What other games can we do
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Trained an AI model on bullet casings and their costs to see military spending live. Found the footage and associated costs on a few youtube videos.
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