Blog What is Abstraction (for AGI)? Below is the definition of "Abstraction" from Wikipedia. "...conceptual process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal ("real" or "concrete") signifiers,
Blog Tech Layoff 2023 - My Thoughts I am writing this on the back of announcements of tech worker layoffs, such as Salesforce, Amazon, Meta, Shopee (SEA Singapore) and my reader may worry that the technology sector
Blog Building Better Intelligence If you know the genesis of the term “Artificial Intelligence”, you’ll know that it is not a well thought through term and it is catching out a lot of
Blog The intersection of AI & Metaverse - Reducing Distances (Part 1) Recently, at #gitex2022, I shared about the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse. I shared about the possible use cases of metaverse and how AI can help in creating those
Blog Singapore AI Research Strategy? Being a Singaporean and in the space of Artificial Intelligence, I thought of sharing how Singapore can stake a good position on AI, a tech that countries cannot ignore and
Blog Thoughts on AI/Technology National Development My 2nd trip to GITEX (Gulf Information Technology Exhibition) came to an end last Friday. While I was very keen to come back to Singapore, a place I call home,
Blog Smart City - Transport Planning & Network Slowly but surely, the "roads" will be flooded with self-driving vehicles. It is time we need to re-look at the whole transport landscape through a different lens rather than the
Blog Solving Intelligence & Understanding Information In recent years, given Covid, I have a lot more time to spend on understanding the world. I find myself gravitating more to the two "I"s actually and that
Blog AGI: Tabula Rasa vs Innatism By this time, most of my readers will know I am very interested in building Artificial General Intelligence. I just finished the book, "Self-Assembling Brain" (by Peter Robin Hiesinger) which
Blog How Much Maths Do I need for Data Science or AI? I get asked this question a lot and will like to answer this in a post here. :) There are a lot of "rumors" swirling around that machine learning is very
Blog Building Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ecosystem Recently, I had a discussion with a friend on how nations/countries can build an ecosystem to grow national level AI capabilities. This is especially important given that, even though
Blog AGI: Thoughts on Building AGI (Part 2) Through the many months of research, looking at how AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) can be build, I find that the biggest stumbling block in building a credible one is actually
Blog How Should One Learn Data Science or Artificial Intelligence? “How should one learn data analytics, data science or artificial intelligence?” That was the common question I get a few weeks ago when I was having a chat with ‘green’
Blog Anthropomorphism - Human Bug In the World of AI As I put in more thoughts on a World of AI, one of the biggest stumbling block right now is not the advancement of algorithms, software or hardware, but rather,
Artificial Intelligence Turing Test is Obsolete? Bring in Coffee Test! So in one of my post on LinkedIn (found here), someone suggested that LaMDA should go through a Turing Test to determine if it is sentient or not. I have
Blog Future with AI: Sex Robots I might be writing stuff that some readers may find offensive, if you do, please do not read on. I also invite anyone with constructive criticism and feedback to share
Blog AI Ethics to AI Professional Ethics I fancy calling it AI Professionals Ethics rather than calling it AI Ethics. We need the people designing and researching on Artificial Intelligence to think ethically and design impactful #AI
Blog After Data Project Portfolio, What Is Next? After you have finished your data science or artificial intelligence project portfolio, what is next? Yes, looking for a job is definitely important but the most important next step is
Blog AGI: Thoughts on Building AGI So this post is for me to structure and document down my thoughts on building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). First thing is I do not see AGI being build using
Blog Essential Success Factors of Data-Related Career What are the essential ingredients to be successful in a data career? If I were to really distill it to the bare minimum, it will be passion and having a
Artificial Intelligence How Hotels can Adopt Artificial Intelligence Without Losing the Human Touch Sci-fi movies and recent advancements in technology have sustained a fascination with Artificial Intelligence (AI), and businesses are keen to integrate Artificial Intelligence into their processes. But before we discuss
Blog Conscious Machines? Recently, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher declares that machine learning models might be conscious. It caused a huge storm in social media, especially on Twitter. Wanted to express my thoughts
Blog What is Understanding (for AGI)? This is a question that has me pondering in my long (4km) morning walks,"What is 'Understanding'?" We have been talking about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), intelligence that is human-like.
Blog Thoughts on AI Index Report 2022 (Stanford) - Part 3 Third (and last) post on my thoughts on the AI Index Report from Stanford. Part 1 and Part 2 found here. :) More global legislation on AI than ever This is
