Communication is a broad term. I like to think of it as how we communicate with different entities – other people, machines (aka prompting), and surprise, our bodies. Communicating involves deep listening and then making an appropriate response. When it…
You know that I cannot stand seeing pointless selfies on LinkedIn. The irony is that I know how to create nice-looking ones. Here’s how you can use Google Gemini’s latest “nano banana” image-editing capabilities to transform your photo into a…
In this week’s newsletter, I talk about how I wrestled with early technology over 25 years ago and how that hasn’t really changed today with AI. I also share my week’s postings about my latest CNA commentary for parents, how…
I vibe-coded a new app this week – it takes any photo and turns it into a pixelated visual akin to those from the 1980s games of my youth. If you upload a photo of a person, it adds a…
Google Gemini now includes the latest imaging engine nicknamed “nano-banana” and it’s designed for image editing. To test it, I gave it my classic “Give Ian Back His Hair” challenge. See which hairstyles you can identify. Some tips:
In my latest commentary for CNA, I write about the three things that parents need to arm themselves with in the age of Gen AI: AI literacy, a clear understanding of the learning process and deep human values. “I am…
The LLM Claude cannot generate images by itself, but it can tap on external tools to do so. Today, I tried out the Qwen and Krea image engines to make some fun images that included both English and Chinese text.…
In this week’s newsletter, I write about how our reality has become filtered by other people. And apart from sharing my recent posts, I am also sharing a few unlocked NYT articles for your reading pleasure. Just about everything we…
In this week’s newsletter, I discuss the problem of fully-automated content, and I share the many posts I have written since the last newsletter a month ago. I recently watched a talk where almost all the speaker’s content was obviously…
To cater to the growing Chinese market in Singapore, I’m rolling out a Mandarin edition of my Generative AI fundamentals workshop in coming months. To prepare for it, I’m going to be reading and speaking Chinese as much as possible…