AI Studio 101

by Rich Jones

This is a guide for complete beginners who want to build useful and interesting Artificial Intelligence systems using AI Studio. We're going start right from the very beginning, so you don't need to have any prior programming or mathematical knowledge.

AI Studio is a web-based tools for building and running your own AI systems using the latest AI models and everything else you need to glue your system together.

Getting Started

First, create your AI Studio account. It's free! Next, sign in and create a New System. You can choose a template or start with a blank canvas. Let's start with a blank canvas for now.

At the top, you'll see your project name and a bar of button. On the left, you'll see your blank canvas, and on the right, you'll see the console where you'll interact with your system.

A system is a graph of "nodes", little boxes which perform some task. Some might take input from a user, other might generate some text or a picture, others might glue the others together or perform some other useful transformation.

To add a node, right click on the canvas. This will open a menu with all of the different nodes available to you, organized by category.

Let's start by adding a way for us to talk to the system. Under the "Input / Output" selection, choose Console Input. Do the same again and choose Console Output.

Grab the little circle on the Console Input "output" and drag a line to the the little circle on the Console Output "input". It should look like this:

Now, press the green "Run" button in the top bar. Your system is running now. When you type something into the input box at the bottom and press Enter, you'll see it come up. One for your input, and then the same output echoed back at you. Okay, not very impressive yet. Let's do something magical.