OCBC workshop – Sharing my daily prompt
I always show this slide in all my Gen AI workshops: “Check grammar:” [then paste text] I tell the audience, “No matter the AI literacy of this class, I will share this prompt with you because it’s what I use…
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Nan Hua High School PDL Day 2025
Thank you to Nan Hua High School for inviting me to be their speaker at their Professional Learning Day yesterday. “Pedagogy x Gen AI” is a complex topic to tackle, and I shared my thoughts both as an educator and…
Newsletter 46 – Cats and Calculators
The title of today’s newsletter has absolutely no meaning, it’s just written to accompany the AI video I made of Calculator Boy walking his cat. Calculator Boy is a character I designed to decorate the presentation slides for my AI…
Newsletter 45 – Before love turns to hate
Yesterday, I got to know a female artist. She lamented that her daughter was not pursuing art further. The daughter had taken art as a GCE O-Level subject at an advanced level. I saw the young lady’s work and was…
Feedback that made my day
I had the opportunity to share my Gen AI techniques with over 1,800 civil servants during webinars organised by the Civil Service College. Thank you to everyone who attended, and also thank you to the person who wrote this comment –…
Gen AI talk at MAS
I had a great time with over 140 leaders of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday, sharing fun ways they can make Gen AI work for them. Thank you to Tiffany Lei, Isabelle Leong and team for inviting me…
Newsletter 44 – Look under the hood
I’m always apprehensive about showing people how I use AI apps such as Whisper and Marker. These are free and powerful apps that I use to transcribe audio and convert PDFs to text. However, they use a command-line interface, which…
ST Advanced Gen AI Masterclass – Mindef
Thank you to the latest batch of Ministry of Defence of Singapore folks who took part in The Straits Times Advanced Generative AI Masterclass! I was very impressed by some of the AI tools you built to solve challenging problems…
My talk at the DesCartes Program
Saying hi from the talk I gave yesterday to participants of the DesCartes Program Annual Seminar. They are researchers solving difficult problems in the real world, and I was there to share how they could tell their stories to different…
OpenAI Agent Builder
OpenAI just launched AgentKit, a suite of tools for building and deploying agents. One of the tools is Agent Builder, which you see in the screenshot here, that allows you to build workflows visually with multiple AI agents and tools.…