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GenAI in Scents, ChatGPT's Voice Mode in Desktop app, Creativity Theft and more

You can get plum-garden vibes sitting in your room. All you have to do is write a prompt.

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Charbel Zeaiter
November 01, 2024

Good morning!

How did 1st Nov arrive so quickly?

If you took part in Halloween yesterday, hope it more treats than tricks

Gen AI Scents? I’m thinking of launching my own perfume: Charbel No.5. Also, Elon wants X-Rays; if anyone has his address, please share and I’ll send him mine—I’m already part machine with all the past post-surgery metal in my wrist and ankle.

As always, lots to cover today; let’s get into it.

Good Things Come To Those Who Make.

Yours in wonder,
Charbel
Founder of Velvet Onion, Faster Zebra and more to come …

Today’s Highlights

  • AI: ChatGPT's Voice Mode Now on Desktop: Works almost like Google Assistant

  • Design: A Silent Player in AI Image Generation : Beats Midjourney and others in Realism, Speed and other benchmarks

  • Science & Tech: An AI system that can generate scents & fragrances

  • Founding: Position your product as the default preference in the category

  • Product: AI startups are surpassing ROI projections: Sweet win-wins with large-scale companies  

  • Creativity: Creativity Theft by Educational Systems: An artificial obstacle to boundless creativity 

  • Today’s AI image: Osmo’s plum-scent replication

  • Quote for the day: From Benjamin Franklin

AI

ChatGPT's Voice Mode Now on Desktop: Works almost like Google Assistant

In one of its recent posts on X, OpenAI declared the arrival of its Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT desktop app.

The model activates as a floating window so that you can interact with it alongside using other apps. Kind of like Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri except here you’re chatting with AI and receiving ChatGPT’s advanced AI-powered responses.

The feature works in the latest version of the app only.

My opinion:

With this upgrade rolled out, multitasking now is not only easy but also highly effective since it is as though ChatGPT is on a call with you.

Design

A Silent Player in AI Image Generation : Beats Midjourney and others in Realism, Speed and other benchmarks

Recraft, a design startup, made two big reveals:

  1. New V3 AI model: accurate graphic design, text creation, and vector features.

  2. Red Panda: It was Recraft behind Red_Panda, the new strange topper on AI image generation leaderboards.

What makes Recraft so special?

  • The model attained a 72% win rate and an ELO score of 1172 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, leaving behind well-known competitors such as Midjourney and FLUX.

  • It solves the text related gap in image generation. Designers can produce images with beautiful text of any size or length.

  • The model nailed human anatomy realism.

  • Positioning and spacing within a scene

  • More adherence to prompt

  • Custom brand colors

Science & Tech

An AI system that can generate scents & fragrances

Yes, after graphics, videos and audios, AI will also be able to produce various smells now. Here’s all you need to know about it:

Osmo’s demonstration of AI-based scent replication technology

Osmo recently announced its success in making “scent teleportation” work. For the demonstration, it showed precise scent replication of a plum with no human intervention.

How does this tech work?

  • To produce the precise “scent fingerprint”, the system counts on gas chromatography, mass spectrometry and AI-based analysis.

  • Similar to other forms of AI generation, this system also trains on and leverages huge databases. In fact, world’s largest scent database.

  • Since it derives molecular mapping from this database, the scent creation is spot-on.

My opinion:

As the GenAI boom is speedily spreading across all the elements of human perceptions now with upgrades in the scent generation capability as well, businesses and individuals will be able to create more enhanced experiences (audio-visual-scent) rather seamlessly.

Founding

Position your product as the default preference in the category

With rapidly expanding markets today, there is almost always a buyer group for a given product somewhere around the world. So, the product-market fit is no longer sufficient for a successful startup. 

What you should aim for is position-market fit. 

Best way to achieve a position-market fit:

Align your product, brand, sales, pricing and operations

Focus on boiling it down to oneness and uniformity. 

↳ Solve one defined problem of your clearly determined target audience with your own USP through your product.

↳ Create a strong aura around your brand. Maintain uniformity in your brand message, brand design and brand values. Make your audience feel your brand. 

↳ For sales, approach only the target audience for which you built the product. Leverage the problem you are solving to make them team up with you i.e loyalty. 

↳ Price your product as per how your customer values it or how you want them to perceive it. 

↳ Especially the three main operations around position market fit; product, sales and marketing should be well coordinated and unified towards achieving the same organisational goal.

Product

AI startups are surpassing ROI projections: Sweet win-wins with large-scale companies  

In an 80-page report on “GenAI Adoption - 2 years in” released by two of Morgan Stanley’s Thematics team members, it was found that 40% of AI projects generated more ROI than anticipated. 

It also highlighted that the ROI rose with customer scale. Here’s why: 

Large-scale companies had better ROI: HOW?

Costs related to AI implementation include data cleaning and labelling, accuracy monitoring, prompt engineering, process mapping and ongoing usage-based costs. Out of these, factually a large proportion is fixed cost. 

Given that, with the same amount of costs incurred on AI automation systems, the volume of work a larger scale company could automate would be a lot more compared to a smaller scale company. 

In short, the potential created by AI setups would remain underutilised in small-scale firms. 

Education 

Creativity Theft by Educational Systems: An artificial obstacle to boundless creativity 

Ever wondered that if every human is born with the same neurological layout, why aren’t all 8 billion people equally creative? Why are there only a few artists, writers and entrepreneurs in this world? 

A one-word answer to this would be - systems. As long as we are not a part of any bureaucratic institutional setting (like school, college or any corporation), our thought process is not bound by any externally imposed opinion or belief. 

That’s the reason small children are the most free beings and hence, the most creative. By free, I mean open to explore new ideas and imagine novel concepts.

How do educational institutions “rob” us of our creativity?

  • Rigid standards for creative tasks: When a formal superior (say your teacher or your senior) asks you to come up with ideas that are within the circle of standards drawn by the institution, the process you follow is no longer called “creating”. It’s called “choosing” from a finite range of options. 

  • Objectivity > Subjectivity: Since the standards are pre-set, they expect you to produce a certain outcome. The “right” answer is objectively fixed,  leaving no room for any new idea beyond that. 

When this cycle is repeated every time you are exposed to a creative task, you soon get accustomed to limited thinking. Hence, your creativity is painfully suppressed. 

Then how are great artists, writers and entrepreneurs created?

When an individual is passionate enough about creating, he comes to the realisation that without breaking the suffocating brain-cuffs i.e the limiting beliefs and thoughts, he wouldn’t be able to tap his most valuable resource - his mind. 

Once he learns to push away every what-if and yes, but, the magic begins. 

Today’s AI Image

Osmo’s Plum-scent replication

Source- Bing Image Creator

Source - Ideogram

Source - Ideogram

Quote of the Day

From Benjamin Franklin

“Well done is better than well said."

Benjamin Franklin

What we’re working on

Velvet Onion & Friends

We’ve been building a complex, enterprise wide, data-rich, AI-enabled product for our friends at IAG.

As their product development partners, our process with their great team has been faster, leaner and more cost-effective for the company.

We’re redefining the way students learn skills in Strategy, Business, Product Development, Design, RevOps, Marketing and Pitching.

We’re soon launching our flagship program where students learn everything from strategy to pre-launch. The winners get their idea built by Velvet Onion.

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