Claude Cowork cleaning up desktops
One of the things I never expected Gen AI to do is to clean up a messy computer desktop. This video from Anthropic shows the latest Claude Cowork app in action. From Claude: “In Cowork, you give Claude access to…
Ian Tan
NYT’s 35 Health Tips
Download Image I created this infographic using Google AI Studio, extracting the key points from this great New York Times article (unlocked for you here) “35 Simple Health Tips Experts Swear By”. I’m going to print it out and paste…
ST Masterclass is two years old
Time flies! It’s been two years since I partnered with The Straits Times to launch the Masterclass in Generative AI for the public. We run our Masterclasses almost every quarter, and have expanded the course into Fundamentals and Advanced modules – each…
A serious way to have fun with Gen AI
I find that a lot of people on LinkedIn take Gen AI too seriously, especially when they generate visuals. Not everything needs to be a boring corporate take (“OMG, not another quote on the wall generated with AI!”). But prompting…
My HSK Chinese Python app
Now that my Masters course is coming to an end, I am getting back to my original quest to learn the 5,000 words in the Chinese HSK vocabulary list and improve my Mandarin. But I’ve always struggled with revision as…
Newsletter 52
I chopped up my first melon yesterday. It was a Hami melon and I didn’t know how to check for ripeness until I had finished the cutting. Somehow, I’ve lived almost half a century and had never done this before.…
Testing for human x AI skills
I was listening to a news feature which talked about how more companies want to hire people with “AI skills”. That’s a pretty broad requirement. Is it enough just to know how to write a prompt in ChatGPT? No, I…
Google Gems go Opal
Google has just rolled out a new type of Gem in the Gemini app- custom mini apps where you can design the workflow and iterate each step in specific ways. Gems were originally custom chatbots which I teach in my…
ChatGPT Image 1.5
OpenAI just released ChatGPT Image 1.5, and while it is better, it’s not as good as Google’s Nano Banana Pro. With some initial testing, I found that: 🔷 ChatGPT isn’t good at adapting my facial features to different scenarios. Sometimes, the…
GO-FAR 2025 published stories
Five months ago, 13 undergrads, along with Samuel He and I, travelled to the border of Thailand and Myanmar, to a town called Mae Sot for the “Going Overseas for Advanced Reporting” (GO-FAR) module at Wee Kim Wee School of…