Is the End of the Metaverse Near Or Is It Getting a Bionic Upgrade?
Meta’s US$77B pivot from virtual reality to AI-powered wearables shows new ways for digital health to be more immersive than ever… If you grew up in the same era as…
Medical AI Scribes: Productivity Tool or Joy-At-Work?
Two recently published landmark RCTs in NEJM AI finally show the evidence on AI scribes as productivity tools and whether it reduces clinician burnout. Since the hype of AI scribes,…
How Can Pharmacists Bridge an AI-enabled World: Reflections from the Inaugural SingHealth-OsloMet Pharmacy Innovation Futures Day
As part of the Norway-Singapore Science Week this year, my team organized and hosted the Inaugural Pharmacy Innovation Futures Day (PIFD) — signifying a landmark initiative for potential collaborations between…
Should You Be “Polite” When Talking to Gen AI?
It costs nothing to be polite – or does it? For once, “politeness” can be quantified… In April 2025, Sam Altman (OpenAI’s CEO) dropped a bombshell when a curious Twitter…
Ethical Considerations for Gen AI-based Art in Healthcare and Education
Recently, I had a student email my co-lecturer with a concern about a class that I was conducting. This student refused to use a Gen AI image creation tool that…
DeepSeek: A “Vision” for the Age of Agentic AI
It’s the first day of the Lunar New Year 2025, and already the world of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) is already shaking up! If you have not already heard…
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Immersive Education in the SGXverse Symposium
This year, I am honored to be sharing and hosting an Immersive Tech Symposium session at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2023, which is going to be held at The…
AI and Digital Humans – A Lethal Combination in the Future of Healthcare
As I was developing a guest lecture, I decided to explore how to develop my own digital human. While trying to write my script, I was surprised that at the…
ChatGPT in Healthcare – Is The World’s Most Popular AI-Chatbot a Boon or Bane?
Since the end of last year (Dec 2022), there has been lots of buzz about a new artificial intelligence (AI)-chatbot called ChatGPT, which uses natural language processing (NLP) to generate…
AI Health Summit 2022 @ The Fullerton Hotel
I had the luxury to attend the Inaugural Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit held on 11 November 2022 at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore. Organized by the SingHealth Duke-NUS (National University…