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AI News

• Elon Musk Trying to Buy OpenAI. Elon Musk is leading a group of investors making a $97.4B bid to take control of OpenAI. Learn more.
• Gemini Tops the Leaderboards. The new Gemini models released last week are atop the LLM Leaderboards. Learn more.
• Collaborate with ChatGPT Canvas. The ChatGPT Canvas feature is now shareable, meaning multiple people can collaborate on the same canvas (think Google Docs).

OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs Canvas sharing is now live in ChatGPT. Share your canvas with others—they can view, interact with, or edit to make it their own. 🧑‍🎨 https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1882876844208472339 OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs ChatGPT with canvas now works with OpenAI o1—and can render HTML and React. 8:47 PM • Feb 6, 2025 222 Retweets 1720 Likes Read 102 replies

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• OpenAI Superbowl Ad. This ad, "The Intelligence Age," introduces AI to a wider audience. Learn more.

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• Sam Altman also posted three observations about AI on his blog. Learn more.
• Perplexity Launches New Sonar Model. Perplexity just launched a blisteringly fast new LLM called Sonar. Built on Llama 3.3 70B initial results are impressive. Learn more.
• ChatGPT Custom Instructions Changed. ChatGPT changed how customizations are made, so I made a quick video to explain it. Learn more.

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AI Prompt of the Week ✨

Chat with Your Future Self: A Time-Bending Conversation

This week's prompt allows you to have a conversation with your future self, drawing on their wisdom and experience.

Imagine stepping into a time machine and connecting with the you who has lived a full life, achieved your greatest goals, or reached the pinnacle of your career. What would they tell you?

The Prompt:

Why This Matters:

• Gaining Perspective: Connecting with your future self can provide a powerful shift in perspective, helping you prioritize what's truly important.
• Uncovering Wisdom: Tapping into the wisdom of your future self can reveal hidden insights and guide your present-day decisions.
• Inspiring Action: Hearing from the "you" who has achieved your goals can be fun, motivating and inspiring.

Step into this time-bending conversation and see what wisdom your future self has to offer. What guidance will you receive? What truths will you uncover?

Creativity

Visualize Your Future: AI-Powered Self-Portrait 🎨

Let's bring your future self to life! Following this week's AI Prompt, we'll use AI image generation to create a portrait embodying the wisdom, accomplishments, and essence of the "you" you're striving to become.

The Experiment:

1. Reflect: Review your "Future Self Chat." What keywords, phrases, and qualities define your future self?
2. Craft Your Prompt: Adapt this: "Create an image of [your future self description – e.g., 'a wise leader, radiating impact'] evoking feelings of [desired emotions - e.g., peace, fulfillment']."
3. Generate: Use your prompt with an AI image generator (Midjourney, DALL-E, etc.).
4. Connect: Reflect on the image. How does it resonate? What insights does it spark?

Here's a prompt I used:

/imagine A portrait of a wise, impactful leader, radiating joy. Surrounded by warm, glowing light in a serene natural setting. Gentle smile, knowing eyes. Photorealistic and ethereal. Soft, warm lighting, vibrant colors. --ar 1:1 --stylize 750

Adapt this to your vision! Experiment with keywords, styles, and settings.

This week, visualize the person you're becoming. An AI-powered portrait can strengthen your connection to your goals and inspire your journey.

Here is my image using the prompt above in Midjourney.

Spirituality

Embodying Your Future Self: Living From Wisdom, Now 🌱

This week, let's go beyond visualizing our future selves and explore how we can embody their wisdom, qualities, and energy in the present moment. We do this by consciously embodying their essence now. We accelerate our growth and live from that place of wisdom and fulfilment.

The Practice:

1. Identify Key Qualities: Reflect on your "Future Self Chat" and the AI-generated image. What are the defining qualities of your future self? (e.g., Peaceful? Confident? Courageous? Compassionate? Creative?)
2. Choose One or Two: Select one or two qualities you want to focus on this week.
3. Conscious Embodiment: Throughout your day, consciously practice embodying these qualities. How would your future self approach this situation? How would they speak? How would they respond?
4. Reflect and Adjust: Reflect on your efforts at the end of each day. Where did you succeed? Where did you struggle? What adjustments can you make tomorrow?

This week, step into the energy of your future self. By consciously embodying their qualities, you accelerate your growth and begin to live from that place of wisdom and fulfilment now.

What qualities will you embody this week?

Life Update

This week, I've been experimenting with embodying a key quality of my future self—the ability to hold silence and create space for something deeper to enter conversations.

It's a practice of genuinely listening—not just to words but to the unspoken energy, intuition, and quiet wisdom that often hides beneath the surface.

Honestly, it's been challenging. My mind wants to jump in, offering solutions, fixing, and filling the void. But I'm learning to resist that urge—to pause, breathe, and be present.

In those moments of stillness, I glimpsed something wonderful—a connection, an understanding, a spark of insight that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.

It feels like a small shift, but it's rippling outward, changing how I interact with loved ones, clients, and the world.

It makes my heart sing!

How do you create space for deeper connection in your conversations and life? I'm curious to hear your experiences.

With love and gratitude ❤️‍🔥🙏, Colin

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