In the recently released game Coffee Talk, you play a coffee-shop barista who stands at a counter, through long, rainy Seattle nights, making drinks for customers as they tell you about their lives. Your only interaction is pressing a button to move the conversation on and occasionally crafting a drink using the available ingredients. The beautiful pixel art interior of your shop, the fleeting glimpses of passersby outside, and the jazzy soundtrack replicate things we love about hanging out in real coffee places. Also, this is an alternative version of Seattle populated not just by humans, but by elves, demons and other fantastical beings, so your clientele is pretty varied. Elves tell you about their love lives, insomniac werewolves seek calm and quiet – you listen and you try to make drinks that will soothe them.

Clarifai's API is another image recognition tool that doesn't require any machine learning knowledge prior to implementation. It can recognize images and also perform thorough video analysis. A user can start to make image or video predictions with the Clarifai API after they specify a parameter. For example, if you input a "color" model, the system will provide predictions about the dominant colors in an image. You can either use Clarifai's pre-built models or train your own one.