Monthly Archives: August 2023

Aug

04

Whimsical Tales

An Undelievered Eulogy

AN UNDELIVERED EULOGY Three W.O.T. things I learned from Michael during the 18 months I reported to him on the P&G business in the late 1970s: Many lovely a girl has spent many lonely a night Dancing is a vertical ...

Aug

04

Itsy Bitsy Bytes @75

50 YEARS OF AI DEVELOPMENTS

Artificial intelligence has become a buzzword in recent years. But the technology has been around for many years. Its history originated back in the 1950s, when the possibilities of machine intelligence were first explored. We now have common products and services ...

Aug

04

Itsy Bitsy Bytes @75

Ai

Artificial Intelligence is the ability of machines to do tasks that normally require human intelligence. We refer to the principles and values guiding the development and use of AI to ensure responsible and ethical use as AI Ethics. Big data: ...

Aug

04

Itsy Bitsy Bytes @75

GBT – The beginning

November 2022 was poppin’ with champagne in the AI world. It marked the release of OpenAI’s GPT-3!    GPT-3 and its whopping 175 billion parameters took the crown as the biggest and baddest language model around. It set a whole new ...

Aug

04

Itsy Bitsy Bytes @75

Writing With AI

As the term “OpenAI’s GPT-3” began appearing more frequently in my reading materials, I decided to find out what this GPT was all about. (General Pre-Trained for those still not in the know). Then my two grandsons (aged 12 and ...

Aug

04

When T-Rex meets XK90C the Robot

Buzzy Learns to Rock climb

Ken had to attend a meeting at the National Stadium. A few days before the meeting, he told Buzzy of the Rock Wall at the shopping mall next to the offices. He showed some video clips of humans climbing the ...

Aug

04

Whimsical Tales

Silent Sam

Silent Sam. That is what the employees called him. From the top of the hierarchy in the C-suite down to the cleaners, not in a derogatory manner. Just a neutral, friendly nickname for the security guard who went about his job competently, and ...

Aug

04

Whimsical Tales

No.8 Fort Road

The lonely house at the intersection of Fort Road and Tanjong Rhu Road always caught my eye when I drove past it. The squarish looking house stands in the middle of an equally square piece of land. The house’s faded paint ...

Aug

04

Whimsical Tales

Woman from Chengdu

Sam put both his legs on the table without bothering to take off his shoes, which he usually does when no one is around. It has been a long but rewarding day. Owning a top karaoke lounge is one thing. ...

Aug

04

Whimsical Tales

Bozell

SHORT STINT, LONG STORY Advertising had always been a kind of mystery to me from childhood. The ads made interesting reading and I felt that I was getting my money’s worth (15 cents each day) if I read even the ...