What can GPT-4 do for you? Showcase of incredible applications — OpenAI’s ChatGPT amassed a whopping 100 million monthly active users in two months, making it the fastest growing consumer technology in history. It’s not hard to see why. Modern generative AI apps, which includes Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT & GPT-4, and multimedia synthesisers like Midjourney, OpenAI’s DALL-E &…

Tracing the history of machine creativity — A class of cutting-edge machine learning techniques have become incredibly adept at generating new images (and now, videos) from scratch or from existing ones. This is called image synthesis and has become one of the most popular use cases for generative AI. Image synthesis has many applications, such as… Advertising…

A deep dive into the challenges & opportunities in 2023 — Gaming has been the one fixture throughout my life. Since a fateful day in 1989 when my uncle introduced me to Super Mario Bros and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), gaming ran in my veins through adolescence and university — and then through multiple relationships and a multitude of jobs…

Define your own rules or let the data do the talking? — Let’s compare and contrast differential equations (DE) to data-driven approaches like machine learning (ML). In a nutshell — albeit with caveats — they can be thought of different approaches to modelling various phenomena. Do you make the rules? Or should you let your juicy data learn the rules for you? …

48-hour hackathon on Amazon Bedrock & SageMaker — Large companies aren’t entirely sure what to do with generative AI, but they want to do something. Some are exploring the technology with internal hackathons. As an engineer and data scientist at one of Australia’s ‘big four’ banks, I’ve been roped into three of these exciting events over the past…

Another day, another hackathon?! — Six months since OpenAI’s ChatGPT exploded into mainstream consciousness, large companies worldwide have begun feverishly exploring how to integrate generative AI use cases into their businesses. These expeditions sometimes look like internal hackathons. As an engineer and data scientist at one of Australia’s largest banks, I’ve had a whirlwind month…

Understanding the guardrails that support innovation — Are you an analyst or data scientist at a large organisation? Raise your hand if you’ve ever come across these head-scratchers: Finding data felt like going on a Sherlock expedition. Understanding data lineage was impossibly frustrating. Accessing data became a showdown with the red tape monster. Here’s a common quip…

Quality over Quantity — It took a three years, but I finally did it: I cracked the $1,000 mark. What’s surprising is that I hit the milestone by publishing less than two stories per month on average over three years. So even casual or hobbyist writers can make it.

How a worker received 20,000 fatal doses of radiation — In a nuclear plant, no worker wants to see a flash of blue light. This ominous sight indicates a nuclear chain reaction, similar to what happens in a nuclear weapon. September 30, 1999, marked the fateful day nuclear power plant worker Hisashi Ouchi received such a death sentence. As he…