Newsletter 41 – Going bananas with art
In this week’s newsletter, I share some of the visuals I’ve created with Google’s Nano Banana for my advanced Gen AI Masterclass and a talk on Agentic AI. I didn’t write much on LinkedIn in the past week as I…
Ian Tan
ST Masterclass in Advanced Gen AI
I just conducted the first run of The Straits Times Masterclass in Advanced Generative AI and it was a blast! We spent the whole day levelling up our skills in prompting, using data, applying frameworks, creating problem-solving chatbots and apps, and designing…
Defining Agentic
There are many ways to define Agentic AI and AI agents, and it can get confusing. Yesterday, for my talk on Agentic AI with over 100 folks from National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), I created these two slides to pin…
Cyborg dreaming
In the future, will our LinkedIn posts be written by AI, or another version of us? Background: I was experimenting with Google Gemini over the weekend. To depict my reliance on technology, I tried to create images that turned half…
Newsletter 40: Meow Meow Meow
In this week’s newsletter: The possible revival of IT trade fairs in Singapore, using Google Gemini to create pointless selfies, and how to communicate with your heart (literally). I also share two unlocked NYT articles that you should like. Meow!…
Communicate with your heart
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…
Google Gemini – make your own pointless selfie
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…
Newsletter 39 – Write your own user manual
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…
Using Google AI Studio
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…
Gemini Nano Banana
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: