Omnitool.ai
Open Source AI platform
What is Omnitool.ai ?
Omnitool is a platform that enables users to discover, learn, and build with Artificial Intelligence in a single, unified space.
Explore a vast library of ready-to-use AI recipes across various domains
Learn how AI works through hands-on experimentation and a supportive community
Build custom AI solutions using modular building blocks and extensible architecture
Omnitool is designed to facilitate AI exploration, innovation, and collaboration for users of all levels.
Context and challenges
We are in 2023, Chat GPT is barely 2 years old. AI is in all the mouth, so much that the word is the most trending word of the year. So much that it is impossible to distinguish noise from news, the number of scientific papers are exploding. AI is everywhere marketed as the magical solution, yet there is very few education on the risk and issues AI can generate in a personal and corporate world.
3 major challenges:
- Cutting through the noise of constant flow (of sometimes fake) news
- FOMO of potential users, everything is evolving so fast that it is impossible to verify if an AI solution is viable
- The very fast pace of innovation doesn't allow to test and learn solutions
“Any sufficiently Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Target audience:
Engineers, AI enthusiasts, Universities, Students, entreprises that want to test and learn possibilities with AI technology.
Research and iterations:
The team was composed of 8 engineers and 1 designer (me), all ex Meta.
I was in charge of helping front end engineers to solve visual problems and simplify the UI. Simplifying was our main moto, but we were facing extremely complex and diverse inputs from different platforms.
The structure:
Blocks are the core elements, together they make workflows, and then you have extensions, that can make up everything.
Building the product was one of the main job, designing the interface but also build content that can sustain the exploration of the platform and then build tutorials to explain how to use AI safely.
The biggest challenge here is to keep the mind of being a first user and don't dive into the bias of knowing the product and therefor think it is simple to use. With an ever changing technology. back en engineers were facing constant changes of API and implementation to keep the platform afloat.
Recipes: Workflows made with different APIs
AI literacy
Solving problem number one:
How to deliver a point of view on AI through the constant noise of media and social platform: Deliver talks to educate people on the risks and misused of AI. We discovered while building the product that the platform was not enough to inform the people.
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