Yesterday, I went on air to chat with Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin on CNA938 Radio about why young people don’t like making phone calls. Surveys show that many young people feel anxious when they receive a phone call or…
Like many people, I was dismayed by the Biden vs Trump debate last week. However, I was also secretly pleased because it provided fresh and compelling content for my upcoming communication classes. One of my lectures will be on headline…
I write complex prompts in ChatGPT for my work, but I spend most of my time writing short prompts to solve silly problems. Like converting a bunch of imperial numbers to metric. Dear USA, you are leading the world in…
This is the first video advertisement made with Sora, the text-to-video generator from OpenAI. Are you impressed? The ad brief: “Imagine the excitement of creating a young Charles Lazarus, the founder of Toys“R”Us, and envisioning his dreams for our iconic…
This is one AI battle to watch: Music Industry vs. AI Music Generators. What’s happening: Major record labels are suing AI companies Suno and Udio for massive copyright infringement. Suno and Udio enable text prompts to generate music and lyrics…
Debate over art is rare in Singapore, so I thought the recent furore over the Samsui woman mural was good to get people thinking about different issues. What happened: A mural in Singapore depicting a Samsui woman holding a cigarette…
I’ve come across posts arguing that Generative AI is a waste of time because the authors haven’t found a good use for it. Some people say that companies are finding it difficult to demonstrate significant returns from implementing AI. These…
I learned something fascinating while teaching 35 teenagers about Generative AI yesterday. At every Gen AI workshop that I conduct, I usually kick things off by showing the participants two cat images, and asking them to identify which cat is…
I’m teaching Gen AI to 35 teenagers tomorrow, and I was thinking about which AI Art engines I should introduce them to. I tried the same prompt – “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” – on six…
Dear reader, I’ve been plugging away at this preamble for six hours but it’s no boast. I took a break to have a Father’s Day lunch with my family, came back to my computer, looked at the umpteenth revision of…