Ian Tan

Ian Tan

Keep calm and use AI

“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi. The past few days has seen much celebration about…

Curate your LinkedIn feed

I read The Straits Times commentary by Jeremy Au Yong about the unbearable behaviour on LinkedIn. I won’t disagree with what he said, but the good news is, you can do something about it! Here’s how to curate your feed:…

NYT – The Gen X Career Meltdown

If you read my posts regularly, you may think that I’m all rah-rah about Gen AI and all the increasingly powerful things it can do. But I belong to Gen X, and my head is still screwed on tight. I…

ChatGPT 4o infographics

While everyone seems to be obsessed with making AI selfies and Studio Ghibli-style memes with the new ChatGPT 4o imaging engine (aka The Law of Average AI Posts), I’ve been experimenting with other things like infographics. Step 1: I asked…

ChatGPT 4o multimodal imaging rocks

As I experimented with the new ChatGPT 4o imaging engine and shared the visuals with my students at NTU, I felt excitement, wonder, and sadness all at the same time. A nuclear bomb has detonated in the heart of marketing…

Coding with ChatGPT

CODING WITH CHATGPT: Last night, I saw that OpenAI had released a new API (gpt-4o-transcribe) for audio transcription and I was eager to try it. However, I’m still a API newbie and I wasn’t sure how to implement the sample…

The Agency of You workshop

Announcing my new workshop in partnership with The Straits Times – The Agency of You! Generative AI is disruptive but it can be a powerful tool for self-transformation. Many people want to become better at pitching their ideas and engaging…