I created a Lemmings-like game where players control creatures by entering rules in English. Claude helped me brainstorm the design and implemented the code. GPT Codex tested the game and worked with Claude to improve it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I created over a dozen artifacts based on my book, The Learner’s Apprentice, using Google’s NotebookLM. I created these in nine different formats (videos, quizzes, podcasts, …). NotebookLM is impressive. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A 5-year old’s adventures as a unicorn who meets fairies, a mermaid, and an initially very friendly shark by using an app I co-created with Gemini. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I found that GPT-5.3-Codex can design, implement, test, and debug a multimedia game for a 5-year old. My job was mostly giving it permissions. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I recently asked different chatbots to create novel web games. Here I asked them to create games that are both original and FUN. 10 games of varying quality resulted. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

After discovering a lack of novelty in yesterday’s LLM designed games I chatted with Claude about this. We came up with a 5-step prompt that worked well. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I asked 3 chatbots “I’m curious how creative you can be. Please create a NOVEL AI-powered web game.” Ten games were produced that seem novel but investigations indicate maybe not so much. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

After discussing with Claude the tension between vibe coding and computational thinking, Claude created a guiding prompt. I tested it and we iteratively improved it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“Imagine that Cinderella, after returning from the ball, decided to create a multi-page website with images. How might it look? “ I asked Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. 3 very different websites emerged. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Perhaps LLMs can provide both formative and summative assessments when students do substantial creative projects with AIs and are asked to provide documentation of their processes as well as their projects. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I had moderate success comparing the abilities of a collection of agents and directly prompting LLMs when asked to rewrite a very short story. I realize to really explore this is a bigger effort than I’m prepared to make. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today I asked Claude Code to create a web page that recreates some animation demos I programmed 50 years ago. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I experimented with using Claude Code to test and improve a game with nearly no input from me. It did very well. This is empowering, but probably is likely to reduce the learning resulting from co-creating apps with chatbots. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

After building a multi-agent app based on Minsky’s Emotion Machine book docs.google.com/document/d/1..., I wondered how different the behavior might be if, instead, I asked a chatbot to simulate a conversation between personas. 3 chatbots simulated the 8 agents well. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I returned to the task of creating knitting patterns, this time creating an app with Claude that automates the earlier process. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I asked three chatbots for predictions about when there will be new versions of each of them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I explored the ideas in Marvin Minsky’s book The Emotion Machine that emotions are ways of thinking by creating with Claude an app where emotion agents help solve problems. I experimented with problems ranging from mathematics to ethics to educational policy. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I co-designed with Claude a game, then asked Claude in Chrome to make the game and generate the needed 30 media files using the Google AI Studio web page. I’m very happy with the resulting My Father’s Dragon game. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I asked Claude 3 dozen questions about its new constitution. Many fascinating responses about its possible “inner life” and its attempts to introspect. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I discovered that different text-to-image systems deal very differently with requests that may violate intellectual property as I was creating a birthday card for my sister. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

For years I have been exploring ways of using generative AI to create illustrated stories. When Google announced a Gemini-based Storybook I investigated. This led me to discover Opal, Google’s experimental multi-agent authoring system. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I was pleased with how well web browser agents were able to explore and build things in web apps that I’ve built. They were able to use my agent application creator app to create a good AI agent writing system. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I updated my table of the over 1000 apps I’ve created with chatbots since May 2023. toontalk.github.io/AI/misc/turn...

With the help of Claude and Gemini I created a web app for easily creating and testing collections of AI agents. Using the app I created a fact checker, an image critic, a design community, and more. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Like the party game of whisper or telephone, with Gemini I created an app where an image description is generated, an image is generated from the description, and the process is repeated many times. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’ve always been interested in visualizing how programs work. I asked 3 chatbots to enhance 3 web apps to incorporate explanatory animations. The results were very encouraging: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I learned some fundamental data science lessons by working with Gemini to create machine learning models for predicting future influenza cases using historical weather data. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I am very impressed by a model of ant behavior Claude created while I roleplayed a high school student. I believe students can make authentic scientific discoveries in this manner. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

With Gemini I made a text and image based adventure game. I explored the pyramid at Giza as it was being built, an enchanted forest full of unicorns, Earth when life first started, and more. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

With Gemini I created a web app where a child creates a wordless story by clicking on emojis to choose the character, setting, and theme. The child can then add narration to the story. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My latest experiment with vibe coding with chatbots led to the creation of a web app that can use a phone to monitor heart beats and breathing and provides an AI analysis. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

As a change from my usual explorations of co-creating web apps with chatbots, I worked on a Python project with Python exploring how well a model that was trained on over 1600 languages works on other languages. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

While I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Gemini can co-create and host multiplayer apps, it failed to make a multiplayer Pong game that synchronized the two players properly: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I just finished running two workshops on creative uses of chatbots this week to 40 Indian students. They produced a very impressive variety of apps: docs.google.com/document/d/1... and docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In preparation for yesterday’s session with the Indian students I created with Gemini an app that generates plausible fictional words and definitions. I then turned it into a game of choosing which one is real and generalized it to science and history. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Preparing for a short demo I’m planning for a workshop I’m giving to children while I’m visiting Assam, India I created with Gemini a talking riddling game that produces visual hints. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

As today is ChatGPT’s third birthday, I thought it would be interesting to revisit my posts about experimenting with GPT back then. The most interesting change was how much easier it is to generate illustrated stories. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Together with Gemini I created “Magic Sketchpad” from an initial prompt generated by Gemini. The user sketches and the app creates animations inspired by the sketch. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The "system" isn't a separate software layer checking my work; it's my own probability weights predicting that "after a URL usually comes a closing parenthesis or a markdown format," effectively hallucinating the formatting into the code. docs.google.com/document/d/1... (2/2)

Gemini surprised me today by saying things like: It’s a bit like having an aggressive "autocorrect" inside my own brain. It's a trick to bypass my own formatting instincts. I realized I was fighting my own training to be "helpful" by making URLs clickable. (1/2)

Today I began with an app Gemini came up with that it calls a “Self-Coding Art Blob”. It generates abstract animations in response to what it calls “injections”. Each injection modifies the existing code. I then suggested a dozen improvements that it implemented. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today I helped Gemini create an AI-powered infinite zoom app using a prompt Gemini generated without my help. It was surprisingly easy. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I asked Gemini to come up with ideas for digital art web pages that take advantage of several Gemini API features. Today I explored one of its suggestions. An app that generates Tarot cards. More to come soon. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

With Gemini I made an app where I can speak commands to produce a Logo turtle program. For example, saying go forward 100 turn right 144 make a procedure to do that 5 times Give it a size input Results in TO STAR :size REPEAT 5 [FD :size RT 144] END docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today I played etymology and history games with 3 chatbots. These simple games occur within a chat - no need to create an app. I found them fun. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It was surprisingly easy to get Gemini to create an app where 2 people anywhere on the net can connect in a chat together with Gemini itself. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

After watching a recording of a discussion between Howard Gardner and Anthea Roberts about the value of considering multiple perspectives from different disciplines and then synthesizing the result, I was inspired to ask 3 chatbots to do this. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I managed to use ChatGPT to generate an image of a praying mantis as well as a program to turn images into knitting instructions. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Together with a colleague, I led a workshop on exploring mathematics by creating apps with chatbots at an international conference for math education. Some of the participants created impressive exploratory math apps in 25 minutes. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I wrote a very short note arguing that an hour-long chat with a chatbot uses about as much electricity as an hour of TV watching. docs.google.com/document/d/1... (2/2)