Straits Times Gen AI Masterclass 5
The Straits Times Generative AI Masterclass had its fifth outing yesterday at Voco Orchard Hotel with 42 participants. I shared with the attendees that the…
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OPPO Find N5 hands-on
Here’s a hands-on of the OPPO Find N5, the world’s thinnest foldable phone at time of writing, done in 7 parts over a week. No…
ChatGPT student usage
OpenAI recently released a report on how US students are using ChatGPT. Their survey shows that students are using Gen AI for almost every aspect…
ChatGPT Deep Research needs more scrutiny
ChatGPT’s Deep Research just rolled out to us $20 ChatGPT Plus users. It was formerly locked behind the $200 Pro tier. I threw it a…
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…
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…