Ian Tan

Ian Tan

AI projects at Victoria Junior College

Yesterday, I was invited to be a panelist at Victoria Junior College’s Professional Learning Community (PLC) Fair, where teachers presented their projects that implemented educational technology for teaching and learning. It was great to see how teachers were experimenting with…

Claude AI-powered Artifacts – Rhythm Machine

Claude AI-powered Artifacts: Making your own apps with Gen AI just got easier with Claude. Anthropic just launched a dedicated space for building, hosting, and sharing artifacts, and the ability to embed AI capabilities directly into them. I tried out…

Perplexity as News Media 4.0

I was trying out Perplexity on WhatsApp today and was struck by how it delivered a daily news update: 🔵 There was an AI-generated cartoon image of the top 4 stories. It appears to be created using the ChatGPT 4o…

AI proficiency is low in the workplace

“54% of your employees think they’re good at using AI. Only 10% actually are.” – Greg Shove, CEO of Section. Section surveyed over 5000 knowledge workers in US, UK and Canada in March this year, and tested them on their…

Midjourney video – Tutu Wolves

A new challenger has entered the AI Video ring! Midjourney finally launched its video engine to fight Google Veo and OpenAI Sora. I find that MJ’s videos are in a class of their own because their still images have a…

Newsletter 32 – Leapfrog Yourself

I use the official Singapore weather website regularly but one thing has always annoyed me. When you land on the home page, you see a rain map, but you can’t see the current temperature and humidity. You have to search…

Google Veo 3 – Rabbits

You have now discovered my secret to writing daily posts on LinkedIn: I have an endless supply of rabbits coming out of my magic hat. More seriously, I’m back to sharing my surrealistic AI videos because Google now lets AI…