Gen AI talk at MAS
I had a great time with over 140 leaders of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday, sharing fun ways they can make Gen AI work for them. Thank you to Tiffany Lei, Isabelle Leong and team for inviting me…
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Newsletter 44 – Look under the hood
I’m always apprehensive about showing people how I use AI apps such as Whisper and Marker. These are free and powerful apps that I use to transcribe audio and convert PDFs to text. However, they use a command-line interface, which…
ST Advanced Gen AI Masterclass – Mindef
Thank you to the latest batch of Ministry of Defence of Singapore folks who took part in The Straits Times Advanced Generative AI Masterclass! I was very impressed by some of the AI tools you built to solve challenging problems…
My talk at the DesCartes Program
Saying hi from the talk I gave yesterday to participants of the DesCartes Program Annual Seminar. They are researchers solving difficult problems in the real world, and I was there to share how they could tell their stories to different…
OpenAI Agent Builder
OpenAI just launched AgentKit, a suite of tools for building and deploying agents. One of the tools is Agent Builder, which you see in the screenshot here, that allows you to build workflows visually with multiple AI agents and tools.…
Newsletter 43 – 3 is the magic number
In this week’s newsletter, I share why 3 is the magic number in presentations. I also recap my earlier posts on how I use ChatGPT Projects; what I will not automate; taking Kurt Vonnegut’s advice; solving the obituary photo problem;…
Cyborg Mascots with Gemini
I was thinking of creating a mascot for my workshop slides and turned to Google Gemini to generate these images separately. I think I like the Calculator Boy the most.
ChatGPT Projects
I think many people don’t look at the sidebar of ChatGPT enough. OpenAI has added really useful features such as GPTs (chatbots), Library (for browsing your generated images) and most recently, “Projects”, which allows you to store your files and…
I’m so tired of seeing LinkedIn posts where someone uses Gen AI to put some pointless saying on a white wall or piece of paper. Here are some other ways you can do it, people! These four images are all…
ST Gen AI Masterclass Fundamentals
Presenting the seventh batch of The Straits Times Generative AI (Fundamentals) Masterclass! I was telling them that we must keep exploring new Gen AI apps, because what is hot today will be superceded tomorrow. Well, the Google Whisk and Google Veo video…