“How should we practice journalism in the age of Generative AI?” This was the theme of my discussion yesterday with financial journalism post-grad students from City, University of London. They were visiting my school the Wee Kim Wee School of…
ChatGPT 4o (“omni”) has just been released for free use and I took it for a quick spin. 1. “Generate different icons of a bald man with glasses” – Not bad! 2. “Analyze this research paper on AI in education…
Some people really dislike AI-generated images. Over the weekend, the SG Gov social media team posted a few visuals to celebrate Mother’s Day. They were riffs on local food, and one post went like this: “Mum, you are the ‘laksa’…
Now that the NTU teaching semester has ended, I have more time to get back to my Chinese language studies. I was reading the Zaobao media interview with outgoing PM Lee Hsien Loong and came across this sentence: “当前纷扰的世界局势正扰乱多边贸易的开放常态，也引发各种区域安全隐患.” 1.…
The best day to celebrate Mother’s Day is on any day except Mother’s Day itself. Discuss. Original post on LinkedIn
Does Jupiter have 79, 80 or 95 moons? We were all stumped by what ChatGPT told us during the Straits Times Generative AI Masterclass yesterday. – The free version of ChatGPT (3.5) told us that Jupiter had 79 moons as…
I just cloned my voice with Generative AI. Please take a listen to my AI-generated reading of Lewis Carroll and let me know what you think! Background: I’ve been wanting to start a podcast for 20 years but could never…
If you’re serious about personal branding, don’t just rely on LinkedIn. You need your own website. Why? 1. All your content properly archived and made searchable I write almost daily on LinkedIn and this means I have hundreds of original…
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go,” said Dr. Seuss. Image generated by Midjourney. Original post on LinkedIn.
When was the last time you bought or subscribed to a print magazine? This week in Singapore, news broke that Thambi Magazine Store, an iconic roadside magazine shop, would be closing after being in business for over 80 years. Its…