Ever felt lost when a sommelier throws out words like "Rhubarb hangs out with cherry cider and the mellowest cinnamon" to describe a wine? ‍ Well - me too!

At the end of last week I was on a quest to bridge the gap between flowery descriptions and actual grape varieties! Inspired …

While text-to-image and text-to-text take most of the Generative AI headlines, the field of text-to-speech (TTS) continues to make steady progress. Recently, I explored the capabilities of Tortoise-TTS, an open-source framework for building high-fidelity TTS systems.

I've captured my research and experimentation in a Jupyter notebook. You can find it …

🔥 Meta's latest release, Llama 3, has delivered an impressive set of Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks. While the 8B and 70B parameter models show impressive results against closed-source and open-source models such as Claude, Gemini and Mistral, it's interesting to compare improvements of …

A few months ago I wrote a long-form post on the potential impact of AI on how we communicate. One of the themes I explored was how AI can increase the speed and efficiency of video transmission by modelling the underlying systems using neural networks, assisting in frame interpolation and …

Threat actors, also known as bad actors, are individuals or groups who deliberately engage in malicious activities such as hacking, phishing and other cyber crimes with the intent to harm systems, networks or data. These actors are driven by various motivations, including financial gain, political ideology, grievances or vendettas.

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As a child, I was captivated by the earliest animated shorts produced by Pixar. The combination of groundbreaking computer graphics and storytelling brought the characters to life. I can still vividly remember watching Luxo Jr bounce across the screen, chasing, playing and eventually puncturing a small blue …

I am excited about the potential for good that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has in the education system. Every child is unique, with different interests, natural abilities and preferred ways of learning. AI can be used to personalise learning for each child, providing them with the content and instruction that they …

In my role as field CTO, I sometimes speak with analysts and the media. Conversations often focus around a predetermined area of interest of set of questions. The follow text is based on my preparation for an interview with Techgoondu, Sinagpore.

Q1. What’s the Asia-Pacific AI landscape like currently …

Each day we are presented with an almost limitless supply of potentially interesting and valuable media to consume. In a fraction of the second we make the decision to consume it, delay it for later or simply ignore it. But how often do we defer reading something and never get …