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ChatGPT acting weird about "David Mayer", Runway's Frames Feature, Getting Done VS Letting Done and more
ChatGPT is scared to say "David Mayer"
Charbel Zeaiter
December 03, 2024
Thom Browne wins against adidas’ “Trademark Bullying”, Runway has released “Frames” as the animation industry is about be forever changed. Also, whatever you do, don’t ask about David Mayer 🙂 This one has been making the rounds on social media, let’s explore.
Hope your week has started off wonderfully well!
Yours in Wonder,
Charbel
Founder of Velvet Onion, Faster Zebra and more to come …
Today’s Highlights
AI: ChatGPT Refuses to Say "David Mayer": What’s Behind This?
Design: Runway Frames Design: Cinematic Portraiture, Retro Anime, and Dynamic Landscapes
Science & Tech: Tesla Optimus Robot Updates
Founding: Getting it Done VS Letting it Get Done: Throughout Control OR Once Triggered Flow
Product: On creating a customer-friendly profitable pricing page
Today’s AI image: Australia VS Bots: Someday in Cricket World Cup
Quote for the day: From a Great Female Scientist
AI
ChatGPT Refuses to Say "David Mayer": What’s Behind This?
ChatGPT, the AI marvel, has a peculiar aversion to a simple name: "David Mayer." It's a digital taboo, a forbidden phrase that triggers an immediate system crash.
Internet sleuths have tried everything to unravel this mystery, from ancient codes to modern ciphers. But the AI remains tight-lipped.
Oddly, other AI chatbots, like Gemini and Claude, have no such qualms. They can easily pronounce "David Mayer" without a hitch. It's as if ChatGPT has a personal vendetta against Mr. Mayer.
Two main theories have emerged. One suggests that ChatGPT is protecting David Mayer de Rothschild, a wealthy heir. The other posits that "David Mayer" might be an alias of a dangerous militant, causing unintended consequences for innocent people.
At least we've discovered something ChatGPT won't discuss. Usually, it's the opposite problem - getting it to shut up.
Also in AI
Design
Runway Frames Design: Cinematic Portraiture, Retro Anime, and Dynamic Landscapes
Runway has unveiled Frames, its new image generation model, raising the bar for creative control and visual accuracy. This tool is ideal for crafting projects with consistent aesthetic vibes while allowing endless creative exploration. Frames shines in fine-tuning a project’s look and reliably producing variations that align with your chosen style.
What Frames Brings to the Table:
Seamless Integration: Gradual rollout in Gen-3 Alpha and the Runway API ensures smoother workflows for building immersive worlds.
Precise Worldbuilding: Lets you sculpt environments with pinpoint accuracy in terms of atmosphere, design, and visual identity.
Diverse Worlds
Frames isn’t just about generating images; it’s a gateway to creating entirely distinct aesthetic universes. Here’s a glimpse of its capabilities:
1. Mise-en-scène: A homage to cinematic portraiture with rich compositions of light and shadow, echoing iconic movie visuals.
2. 1980s SFX Makeup: A nostalgic dive into the latex-and-paint era of handcrafted creatures, resurrecting practical effects from the ‘80s.
3. 1970s Album Art: Where vivid creatures meet dramatic imagery, wrapped in bold colours and typography inspired by vinyl covers of yore.
4. Japanese Zine: Retro anime meets dreamy sci-fi, blending bold manga lines with a cosmic, floral explosion straight out of the ‘70s.
5. Digital Picture Profiles: Modern portraiture with art house flair: minimalist tones, structured symmetry, and cinema-like hues.
6. Dynamic Range Landscapes: Nature’s raw beauty, spanning dramatic peaks, vivid salt flats, and brooding skies captured in expansive tonal detail.
7. Still Life: Everyday items become captivating artworks, with simple objects transformed by natural light and shadow play.
Also in Design
Science & Tech
Tesla Optimus Robot Updates
Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, revealed its new hands in a cheeky X post captioned, “Got a new hand for Black Friday.”
The upgrade includes hands with 22 degrees of freedom (DoF), just shy of the 27 DoF found in human hands, allowing for impressive dexterity.
A demonstration video highlights the robot catching a tennis ball, showcasing its precision and agility.
Neuralink Gains FDA Approval for New Study
Neuralink secured FDA clearance for its CONVOY study, a feasibility trial testing its N1 Brain-to-Computer Interface (BCI) implant with assistive robotic limbs.
The timing coincides with Optimus' hand upgrade, sparking intrigue about potential future collaborations between Neuralink’s implants and Tesla’s robotics.
What’s Next?
With Tesla refining Optimus’ capabilities and Neuralink advancing its brain-machine interface tech, the dream of human-robot integration might be closer than we think. From catching tennis balls to reading minds, it seems the future is quite literally in hand.
Also in Science & Tech
Founding
Getting it Done VS Letting it Get Done: Throughout Control OR Once Triggered Flow
Pushing a wheelless wagon along a mile-long road might feel like progress or an accomplishment. But this is just getting it done. A single-use achievement.
Use the time to put wheels on it and you’ve made it efficient enough for 100 such rides. More of letting it done. A multi-use achievement.
Here’s how you can build productive let-it-dones in your organisation:
Build Go-Getter Teams: Arrange and organise brains the way they’re best compatible to their teammates and can compoundingly contribute to overall group’s success. The most important value for them to cling to is trust and collaboration.
Put them in a favourable environment: Pool the right type of resources and allocate them to teams that can most likely make the best use.
Give them what they need to maintain the flow. Teach them what they need to know to use it. And you’re almost done.
Pull the lever and trigger the system: Inefficient work that gobbles up efforts and resources mostly consists of large tasks carried out roughly in a messy organisation, on a regular basis.
Build defined step-to-step, phase-by-phase processes out of these inconsistent tasks. Put them together and you have a system. If you’ve built the right team/s, the system will seamlessly ingrain into the structure.
A flow is achieved.
Also in Founding
Product
On creating a customer-friendly profitable pricing page
Imagine William, an accounting firm owner (and a potential customer) slides right down the sales funnel of your accounts management app and turns his back just because he found the pricing of the plans way too “complex”.
You don’t want this to happen, right? So here’s a quick Dos and Don'ts for creating an ideal pricing page-
DOs-
🗸 Minimalistic design
🗸 Transparent pricing
🗸 A bulleted/ numbered list of features/ benefits
🗸 3 plans- a freemium/ free trial, a mid-ticket plan and a high-ticket plan.
DON’Ts-
x More than 5 plans
x Hyper Designed UI/ UX: Keep it for ToFu. Customers want their money matters to be simple.)
x Hidden Pricing: Annoyed prospects might as well leave your website for this.
x A paragraphed product description: Vague, messy and tiring.
Today’s AI Image
Australia VS Bots: Someday in Cricket World Cup
Source - DALL-E
Quote of the Day
From a Great Female Scientist
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
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