Sullen Cat x AI
I sketched a sullen cat, then I used Midjourney and Adobe Firefly to transform the image into different styles. In the age of Generative AI, the human’s ability to draw the first draft of an image is more important than…
Ian Tan
Midjourney – Robot Hand
I should be doing my work, but instead, I am experimenting with Midjourney’s new image-editing feature. Also, I heard that selfies get more engagement. Hmmm, I think I shall call this post “Shall I let AI take over my writing…hand?”
Leon Furze – AI and Skills Loss article
Recently, a friend wanted to buy an old Olympus film camera and asked me how he should check for defects. I gave him some tips, but I mused that I have all this knowledge about film photography that has been…
Midjourney’s new editor tool
Midjourney now lets you upload images that you can edit and modify using Generative AI. I decided to upgrade my LinkedIn photo to The Purple Cow level! This edited version took about 15 minutes of repeated incremental iterations. What’s phenomenal…
Test your blood sugar at home
We live in a data-driven society yet very few of us want to measure our own body data. But how will we know if we are healthy if we don’t know our numbers? I have been weighing myself daily for…
Bloomberg: AI detectors and false accusations
This story from Bloomberg reinforces why I never check my students’ work for Gen AI usage. Come on, I assume they are ALL using Gen AI tools (just like me). The onus is on me to design class assignments that…
ChatGPT is the 11th most popular website
According to Similarweb, ChatGPT is now the 11th most popular website in the world: “ChatGPT has been topping its web traffic records for months now, with September 2024 traffic up 112% year-over-year (YoY) to 3.1 billion visits, according to Similarweb…
Midjourney personalization
I took some time out to “train” Midjourney on my sense of aesthetics. It’s simply doing a long quiz where you study hundreds of image pairs and choose the image that you like. I’m into colorful and contrasty images, and…
Upgrading my laptop to WiFi 7
Another thing checked off my bucket list – learning how to upgrade the WiFi chip in my laptop. I recently upgraded my home broadband network to 10Gbps and WiFi 7, so I have been upgrading the different devices in the…
Miro has new AI chops
I use the Miro virtual whiteboard in my NTU classes and workshops for group brainstorming and sharing of visuals. Miro just rolled out a new feature where Generative AI can compile inputs from users into neat summaries, briefs and research…