“Should lecturers teach students how to prompt with Gen AI?” This was a question raised during our panel session at the AI Summit, organised by the Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube), NTU. Prompting is basically telling the…
I fell into another rabbit hole this morning. Here’s how it started: I opened up my Gmail and scanned the latest list of Amazon Kindle ebooks on sale. There was a book “Attention Span” by psychologist Gloria Mark on how…
Creativity is one of the soft skills that is often bandied about as if you could just buy it off the shelf or achieve it from attending an online course. Well, obviously not. Everyone is innately creative with the ability…
I spend a lot of time teaching people how to use Gen AI to reduce the amount of time spent on doing mundane or repetitive work. However, I often emphasise that the time saved doesn’t immediately equate to having more…
I HAVE THE POWER (TO EDIT NOTEBOOKLM SLIDES): While many Gen X-ers are gushing over the new Masters of the Universe movie trailer, I’m more excited by my discovery of how to edit the slide decks made by Google’s NotebookLM.…
I did a thought exercise with my undergrad students yesterday. I asked them to fill in a poll and suggest which jobs would survive the onslaught of AI. They proposed jobs such as nurses, vets, mechanics, and entertainers. Then I…
We had a great time yesterday at The Straits Times Advanced Gen AI Masterclass yesterday, building up our skills in effective prompting, doing data analysis, applying frameworks and then using these ingredients to create personal solutions with chatbots and vibe-coded…
You might be surprised to hear this as I am known for generating and posting AI images: I’ve always believed that AI-generated images (or AI Art) have very little or no value in themselves. They’re just like NFT pictures (remember…
A few days ago, OpenAI rolled out its “low-cost subscription” ChatGPT Go to 170 countries, after an initial pilot. For US$8 a month (or SGD $13), you get “10x more messages, file uploads and image creation than the free tier,…
I met a young man yesterday during an external training event. He is doing a part-time degree and is thinking of becoming a business analyst. I suggested that he do internships in sales-related roles so that he would understand how…