Notice The World

Gamifying mindfulness and human attention in the age of AI.

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The Problem: In his essay Machines of Loving Grace, Dario Amodei envisions a future where AI handles our routine work. But as machines take over the mundane, we face a new crisis: screen-induced numbness. We are stuck on autopilot, losing the ability to notice the profound beauty in our everyday environments. If AI is doing the work, how do humans find meaning?

The Solution: The Noticing Engine I built The Noticing Engine to train your attention span. It’s a mobile-first app that uses AI not to replace human creativity, but to act as a personal trainer for it.

How it Works: Snap a photo of the most boring object near you. The app uses Claude's advanced Vision capabilities to act as an empathetic art coach, asking you a highly specific question about an overlooked detail. You are then challenged to type an observation. But here is the magic: Claude acts as a creative judge, evaluating the depth of your sensory writing. Basic answers get a 1x multiplier, but profound, poetic, or metaphor-driven observations unlock a 5x "Master Observer" score.

The idea isn't using AI to write poetry for you. It's about using AI to teach you how to be an artist again, sparking true creative flourishing right at your desk.

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