(By Dr Chen Weiqiang and Mr Damian Boh Choon Kang) The launch of AI Singapore’s AI for Students (AI4S)™ programme in Nov 2018 came to us at a pivotal moment, because we just took charge of two important aspects in Eunoia Junior College: the Robotics & Computing Club and the AI module within the college’s
Just over a year ago this month, AI Singapore played host to a small delegation from the University Technology Center (UTC) Chulalongkorn University (link). It was a casual getting-to-know-each-other chat over drinks in town which was still possible before the appearance of COVID-19. The UTC side was led by Assistant Professor Natawut Nupairoj, its Acting
The Techsauce Global Summit hosted in Bangkok, Thailand, took place virtually on 5 to 8 October this year. Among the hundred-odd talks distributed across thirteen themes, including AI & Data, AI Singapore’s Director of AI Innovation Laurence Liew participated in a panel discussion to share experiences in AI talent development and industry adoption together with
AI Singapore runs a very successful apprenticeship programme – the AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP). Started in 2018, the AIAP is now into its 6th batch of apprentices. More than 90% of our graduates secure an AI job before they complete the 9-month programme. More information about the AIAP programme can be found below. In short,
Big data, data science, machine learning, and now deep learning are all the rage and have tons of hype, for better—and in some ways, for worse. Advancements in AI such as language understanding, self-driving cars, automated claims, legal text processing, and even automated medical diagnostics are already here or will be here soon. In Asia,
For those of you who are in the field of Artificial Intelligence, you would have come across Lex Fridman from MIT. He has a series of videos where he interviews many prominent figures in the field of Artificial Intelligence. These interviews provide many nuggets of information, for instance, research directions, constraints and concerns in the
Today, we welcome the fifth batch of apprentices into the AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP)™. Even as they embark on their journeys, getting used to the office they will call home for the next 9 months like many before them, AI Singapore has already started the application process for the sixth iteration of the award-winning programme.
The nine-month journey of the AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP)™ ended on 23 December, 2019 for eighteen new graduates from the third iteration of the deep skilling programme. It was a packed 40-week period of their lives, but for many of them, becoming an AI engineer began a long time before that. I was interested in
On 23 December, 2019, we witnessed the graduation of the third batch of apprentices from the AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP)™. In his keynote address, Director of AI Industry Innovation, Laurence Liew, thanked the new graduates for their confidence in the programme and for taking the leap of faith to join it full-time, which meant giving
In the past year, we have seen exciting developments in what Artificial Intelligence has to offer. In 2013, Artificial Intelligence started to dominate simple Atari games. Fast forward six years to today, we see it dominate real-time strategy games like StarCraft. The AlphaStar created by Google’s Deepmind company was able to compete at the professional
AI Singapore is pleased to announce the launch of the AI in Education Grand Challenge! This Grand Challenge aims to encourage the development of innovative approaches that use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance Mother Tongue Language learning for primary-level students in Singapore. It supports ground-breaking research ideas that adopt AI technologies and innovations to address
