From Basics to Generative AI — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of machines to do things that typically require human intelligence. This has been enabled by advances in machine learning (ML), which is training machines to ‘learn’ how something works by feeding it lots of data.

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? …

Which models drive decision-making and policy? — When COVID-19 swept the world in early 2020, researchers swarmed in with their modelling expertise to forecast epidemic spread and derive optimum interventions. Here’s a high-level view of the whole party. The majority of mathematical models are derived from the SIR and SEIR compartment models. The primary use cases are…

Visual Explanations & Connections to Probability — In this article, we’ll visually review the most popular supervised learning metrics for Classification — Accuracy, Precision, Recall, Fᵦ & AUC; and Regression — MAE, MSE and R². For classification tasks, the more advanced classification metrics allow you to calibrate the importance of Type I and II errors for your…

Not having impact? Sell stories, not data. — A CEO once said… “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values & agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” - Steve Jobs at WWDC (1997) As a data scientist, engineer and researcher, I sit through many presentations that have…

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…

Singularity Unleashed — Will AI lead to Utopia or Dystopia? — In the world of AI, the ideas of technological singularity and General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) loom large. These two related concepts are oftentimes conflated, but they aren’t exactly the same. …

Don’t fear the disruptive AI tsunami — hop on and ride it — Heat up a coffee and let’s have a chat about the Cambrian-style explosion of AI. What’s the impact on society? Will most industries be disrupted? Should you be worried? How should you position yourself? Will AI lead us to utopia or dystopia?