Your Friday AI Forecast - January 10th, 2025
$150k Humanoid Girlfriends | AI Billionaire Needs Your Help | Robots that Do Your Laundry?
Hey, hey! It’s Friday, January 10th.
CES 2025 is in full swing, AI is taking fitness routines to spy-thriller levels, and Sam Altman is crowdsourcing what OpenAI should build next. Oh, and humanoid robots? They walk now. Like, really walk.
In today’s issue:
Tech toys to make you drool (or laugh).
Sam Altman’s holiday crowdsourcing experiment.
Fitness meets espionage—thanks to AI.
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From Jump Ropes to Espionage: How AI Makes Fitness Fun (Again?)
Brian Westover shares how he used AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity.ai, and ElevenLabs to create custom audio workouts that are as engaging as they are effective.
By combining personalized fitness plans with immersive storytelling, he transformed mundane exercises into spy missions and other thrilling adventures. The process involves blending AI-generated research, guided workout scripts, and lifelike narration, all using free tools.
This playful yet simple approach shows how AI can make fitness both fun and personalized.
Billionaire Tech CEO Needs Your Help…
Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, took to X on Christmas Eve to ask users what OpenAI should build or fix in 2025.
Among the ideas that caught his attention were family accounts with kid-safe guardrails, enhancements to ChatGPT's voice feature for smoother interactions, and improvements to Sora, OpenAI's text-to-video tool. While Altman engages with users on shaping OpenAI’s future, the company also reflects on a turbulent year marked by legal battles with Elon Musk and record-breaking funding rounds.
The Best of CES 2025: Gadgets, Gizmos, and Furry Friends
Get the scoop on CES Y25 here…
CES 2025 is serving up its annual buffet of tech delights, from AI-powered supercomputers to a handbag-clinging robot with zero functionality beyond being adorably fuzzy.
Highlights include Nvidia's Project Digits, a personal AI supercomputer disguised as a desktop mini that packs enough processing power to make you question your laptop's life choices, and Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, a laptop with a screen that literally grows taller (perfect for stacking two movies, because why not?).
Other gems: LG’s AeroCatTower, an air purifier that doubles as a perch and weight tracker for your cat, and Roborock’s Saros Z70, a robovac with a robot arm to pick up socks—and maybe a little dignity. And let’s not forget the Mirumi: a plushy, bashful bot that just hangs on your purse. Is it useful? Absolutely not. Do we want one? Absolutely.
CES is where innovation meets absurdity, and 2025 does not disappoint.
No-Code Builds: He Went From Idea to Profitable SaaS in 72 Hours
Can you create a profitable app in just three days?
A YouTuber tackles this challenge using no-code and AI tools, building an AI-powered resume optimizer from scratch. The journey includes brainstorming ideas, validating the concept, designing branding, building the app, and making first sales—all while balancing life as a parent.
Despite technical hiccups and a tight timeline, the creator makes $238 in profit, proving it's possible to launch fast and learn on the go.
Dopamine Kicks for the Week
Humanoid Robots spotted in downtown China:
For $150,000…you can buy a robot girlfriend:
Maybe social media is good for us after all?
That’s all for our first ever edition of the Friday AI Forecast.
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~ Leo
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