Congratulations to the first batch of The Straits Times Generative AI Masterclass in Chinese! We had a great time yesterday learning the fundamentals of Gen AI and exploring the possibilities of today’s most popular Gen AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM, Perplexity and Whisk.
This workshop is also the first time I’ve taught anything in Mandarin. I readily confess that my Mandarin is not fluent but I saw a gap in the market: If you search “Generative AI” in the SkillsFuture Singapore course website and filter for Mandarin courses, there are only nine courses.
The English version of the ST Gen AI Masterclasses have been popular for the past two years and I wanted to bring our content to an underserved audience. Everyone needs to learn how to embrace AI, regardless of language.
To prep for the workshop, I used ChatGPT and Gemini to translate my original English slides to Chinese, and I also dictated to Gemini to figure out the Chinese terms (eg. my favourite prompt “Check grammar” is “检查语法”.) When I tell people that Gen AI can help us break our own barriers, I try to walk the talk by breaking my own.
I’m thankful to the ST Masterclass team (Sharon Lim, Caryn Lim, Vimala Rajaratnam) for supporting the launch of this Mandarin workshop. I’m also grateful for the workshop participants who braved the heavy rain yesterday, put up with my imperfect Mandarin, and asked many great questions to upskill all of us together.
(Group photo transformed by Google Nano Banana Pro.)