Tencent just released its open-source HunYuan Image-to-Video AI model, and it got many people excited, so I tried it out on my computer yesterday. These are the few videos that I found acceptable enough to share here. A square video…
The Straits Times Generative AI Masterclass had its fifth outing yesterday at Voco Orchard Hotel with 42 participants. I shared with the attendees that the content gets upgraded every quarter as Gen AI keeps advancing rapidly. This time, I introduced…
Here’s a hands-on of the OPPO Find N5, the world’s thinnest foldable phone at time of writing, done in 7 parts over a week. No tech jargon! Part 1 The first thing that struck me when I unfolded the Oppo…
OpenAI recently released a report on how US students are using ChatGPT. Their survey shows that students are using Gen AI for almost every aspect of their school life. I’m not surprised at all, but I’m sure others would be.…
ChatGPT’s Deep Research just rolled out to us $20 ChatGPT Plus users. It was formerly locked behind the $200 Pro tier. I threw it a quick question “Why is the birth rate so low in Singapore” and it took 7…
I haven’t created any Gen AI deepfakes of myself since I last used Stable Diffusion in 2022. This week, I tried out the latest imaging framework called Ace++, created by researchers from Alibaba. You just need to upload a good…
I read this speech by John W. Gardner here and decided I needed to archive it on my site so there’s another backup of it. It’s such a great speech it should not be lost to the world. “Personal Renewal”…
I wrote to all my students at NTU yesterday: “(This is not coursework, but very useful info). If you are thinking about your career and how to succeed in your future jobs, please read Duolingo’s just-released handbook. I am certain that…
Claude AI, a favorite LLM among writers and coders, seems to have received a quiet upgrade under the hood. A few days ago, I fed a one-hour audio transcript into Claude and asked it to clean it up by arranging…
My classmate was downright frustrated with the Excel exercise that we were asked to work on during my weekend class. It wasn’t easy for me either. We were building a financial benchmarking analysis dashboard and I was trying to figure…