TerraAI: Touch Grass — An Open-Source AI That Turns Screen Time into Green Time
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Demo Code How I Built It Why Does Open Innovation Matter? My Agent Session Prize Categories This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built 🌿 TerraAI — Touch Grass: Less Screen Time, More Green Time I built TerraAI , a web-based outdoor…
TerraAI is a web-based outdoor activity planner designed to encourage people to spend less time on their screens and more time outdoors. The project, submitted as part of the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1, aims to promote mindful outdoor experiences.
TerraAI suggests activities such as mindful walking, gardening, birdwatching, and taking a break to appreciate nature. Users can select activities based on their current mood, available time, and personal interests. The planner offers light and dark themes for user convenience.
The project was built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, keeping the code lightweight and easily accessible through a web browser. It utilizes Transformers.js and an open-weight model from the Hugging Face ecosystem for AI integration. In case the AI model fails to load, a built-in recommendation system provides alternative outdoor activities.
The project is hosted on GitHub Pages, allowing users to access it via a public link. While the current version is a prototype, the AI model integration is experimental and requires an internet connection to download necessary files. The fallback recommendations do not require an AI model.
Open innovation plays a significant role in TerraAI's development, offering several advantages. It is more accessible for beginners, providing flexibility in model experimentation, reducing infrastructure requirements, offering control over the user experience, and promoting technology with a real-world purpose. Despite the limitations of open-weight models, this approach allows for exploration and learning about the technology involved.
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