Deepfakes with Ace++
I haven’t created any Gen AI deepfakes of myself since I last used Stable Diffusion in 2022. This week, I tried out the latest imaging…
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Personal Renewal by John Gardner
I read this speech by John W. Gardner here and decided I needed to archive it on my site so there’s another backup of it.…
The Duolingo Handbook
I wrote to all my students at NTU yesterday: “(This is not coursework, but very useful info). If you are thinking about your career and…
Claude gets more powerful
Claude AI, a favorite LLM among writers and coders, seems to have received a quiet upgrade under the hood. A few days ago, I fed…
Why everyone needs to learn to love Excel
My classmate was downright frustrated with the Excel exercise that we were asked to work on during my weekend class. It wasn’t easy for me…
Google Guardrails
There’s a reason why Google Gemini remains unpopular as an LLM chatbot- its restrictive guardrails make it frustrating to use. Yesterday, I was preparing a…
Plaud Note hands-on
One of the best uses of Generative AI is in audio transcription. These days, you can record the audio from a meeting or lecture, and…
ChatGPT o3-mini
Another day, another new ChatGPT model from OpenAI. This time, it’s called “o3-mini”. This is a faster and cheaper version of “o1-mini”, which itself was…
Understanding how things work
Singapore households spent $1.8 billion SGD on tuition in 2023, according to our government. There are about 1.4m households in Singapore. Do the math! Now,…
Go try DeepSeek
I test every new LLM engine with the FIPP test (Flatter Ian Pretty Please test). DeepSeek, the new ChatGPT competitor, is able to retrieve salient…
OpenAI, Operator and AI Agents
OpenAI launched its first public AI agent “Operator” today and it got me thinking about how our online behaviours will change in the next few…
Free Perplexity Pro with Singtel
Yo, Singtel customers, freebie alert! Get Perplexity Pro free for a year (S$270 value) by redeeming the offer from the MySingtel app. Now, I’m always…