In the very near future, you will be able to put together a Generative AI video like this wonderful “Air Head” short film. This was released by OpenAI last week as a showcase of the upcoming text-to-video Sora platform. The…
My friends and family are often puzzled by the contradictory things I say. Over coffee, I was lamenting to a friend about how I wish I had made a different decision 30 years ago that would have changed the course…
What is the best way to communicate the Christian faith? Today is Easter Sunday, when believers remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he was crucified on the cross. I recently came across this ad for the Episcopal Ad Project…
AI Art for the weekend: “The Day The Egg Stood Still” Inspired by my daily breakfast of two eggs and my current reading journey through Liu Cixin’s trilogy (The 3 Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Death’s End). This took…
Why am I conducting “The Straits Times Masterclass: Generative AI for Teenagers” on 19th June? Firstly, it’s obvious by now that everyone will need to wield Gen AI to remain relevant in coming years. I see so many courses being…
The desire for “likes” drives many people to keep posting on social media. But how many are authentic “likes” from a human being? This photo is from the CNN article “Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’”, showing a wall…
I hope your week went well and that you didn’t have to deal with too much nonsense in your life. We can define life in many ways and I just cooked up this saying: “Life is dealing with other people’s…
If you have AI skills, employers in India and Thailand are willing to pay AT LEAST 54% and 41% more to hire you – so says a survey of 5,000 organizations and 15,000 workers across Asia Pacific. The survey was…
It was 2001, I was on a date with my girlfriend (and now my wife) and we walked past a shop selling string instruments. There were many beautiful violins and cellos on display. I said to her, “Maybe I should…
The great music conductor Benjamin Zander has a funny story in his book “The Art of Possibility”: Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apoplectic with fury, shouting and stamping…