Blog Wishlist for Singapore Government (2025 onwards) Most readers will know that Singapore has just concluded its General Election with signs of sophistications among the electorate and majority votes for status quo. I am interested in discussing
Blog Critical Thinking: Getting to First Principles If you have been following my newsletter, you'll know that for getting better at lifelong learning, I am advocating for 2 Cs. They are Critical Thinking and Curation. I have
Blog Getting to the Real Experts Alright, I can officially say at least Singapore wants to shift the population towards Lifelong Learning paradigm so let us talk about Learning. :) Ask yourself the following question: “If you
Blog National AI Talent Strategy By now, there are a handful of nations that has announced their National AI Strategy. Going into the individual nation's AI Strategy is what I am keen on doing later
Blog Skills & Competencies - Tasks & Jobs As countries starts to figure out how to equip its manpower, current and future, to take on future economy and its variances, trodding down the "lifelong learning" pathway, it is
Blog Difference btw Education and Lifelong Learning With technology coming onboard faster, taking over many of the technical tasks, labor or manpower cannot run away from the fact that they will have to constantly learn to keep
Artificial Intelligence Are You Human or "Human"? I came across this fantastic YouTube video by DamiLee where she shared why movies from Ghibli Studios can never be replaced by AI. This video ties in exactly with a
Blog Algorithm War Coming! In March 2023, Bill Gates published on his blog site titled, “The Age of AI has Begun.” I must say it was a captivating read for me. How so? Bill
Blog What Existential Risk is There? (Long Post) In my newsletter, I wrote a quick thought on this statement that many prominent figures in AI (including Philosophers apparently) have voiced support and sign on it. The statement is
Blog Is AI Getting Dangerous? Recently, there is an article/interview that went viral in the industry. Rodney Brooks, the former Director of CSAIL was interviewed. Briefly, he is a robotics researcher in MIT currently.
Blog New Normal with Generative AI In a recent discussion I have with a group of non-tech people, the topic of Generative AI was brought up (...again), so I thought I write a thought piece on
Blog Tech Layoffs 2023 (Validated) Today I came across the following Business Times article that talks about the tech layoff development in Singapore. https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/economy-policy/laid-tech-workers-still-demand-elsewhere-may-not-be-jobs-they-preferThe newspaper validated my point
Blog Geoffrey Hinton Leaving Google - Death Knell of AI? The big news this week is definitely, Geoffrey Hinton leaving Google plus his indication that he is not sure if AI can be used for the good of humanity anymore.
Blog Thoughts on AI Index Report 2023 (Stanford-HAI) - Part 5 If you have made it to here after the last 4 parts, my biggest appreciation! :D If you have not, please find the other 4 parts below. :) Part 1, Part
Blog Thoughts on AI Index Report 2023 (Stanford-HAI) - Part 4 As the title says, this is Part 4. If you are interested, please check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. 7. For the first time in the last decade,
Blog Thoughts on AI Index Report 2023 (Stanford-HAI) - Part 3 Quick Summary of what I am doing here. I am writing my thoughts on the AI Index Report that was published late March of 2023. If you want to access
Blog Did AI cause Eco-Concerned Suicide? These days a lot of people use the Belgian guy's suicide as an example that the AI is bad and no thanks to the "click-bait" titles, this add on to
Blog Thoughts on AI Index Report 2023 (Stanford-HAI) - Part 1 Have you caught the 2023 AI Index Report by Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence? If not, you can catch it below. https://hai.stanford.edu/research/ai-index-2023Here are the
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 Not Only Machine Learning! As a data scientist, our work does not stop at machine learning model training alone. We definitely need to do more than that. It is similar to the forward or
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 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 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,
