Don’t Learn AI. Build AI Capability
Yesterday I attended DPEX 2026, and Kevin Shepherdson from Straits Interactive delivered a talk that cut straight through the noise. While everyone else is still talking about AI literacy and fluency, Kevin made a simple but critical argument: stop learning about AI, and start building AI capability. It’s a distinction that matters more than most people...Continue reading→
You Don’t Need 59 AI Tools. You Need 6 Capabilities.
Why Claude’s examples show how AI really works in organisations Most organizations waste resources building the same AI capabilities multiple times because they organize adoption by department instead of by underlying capability. Fifty-nine use cases. Six organizational capabilities. One structural misunderstanding. Right now, 95% of enterprise AI pilots are failing. Not because the technology doesn’t...Continue reading→
The Seahorse Emoji That Doesn’t Exist (And Why AI Can’t Handle It)
Here’s a simple question that breaks even the most advanced AI: “Is there a seahorse emoji?” Spoiler alert: there isn’t one. But watching GPT-5 try to answer this question is like watching someone search for their glasses while wearing them. The AI spirals through dozens of wrong emojis (tropical fish 🐠, unicorns 🦄, sharks 🦈,...Continue reading→
The British Don’t Say What They Mean – And That’s a Problem for AI
How politeness, understatement, and sarcasm throw off even the smartest language models If you’ve ever worked with Brits, or watched The Office (UK version), you’ve likely encountered a unique phenomenon: the art of saying one thing and meaning another. It’s not dishonesty. It’s indirectness – a cultural dance of politeness, passive-aggression, and social survival. As...Continue reading→
Inside the Mind of Dr. Hallucino: Why Gen-AI Hallucinates
It All Started with a Fox Head and a Red Dress Back in 2023, I asked ChatGPT a simple question: “Write a passage about Peter Gabriel dressing up in a red dress and fox head.” Now, I’m a big Genesis and Peter Gabriel fan. I know the lore.So I recognized immediately what came next wasn’t...Continue reading→
50 Common Words AI (and People) Mishear Across the English-Speaking World
This post explores British and American pronunciation differences through the lens of AI speech recognition, offering new insight into how we speak and how machines listen. As someone who teaches English phonetics in Singapore, I’m constantly navigating the subtle differences in pronunciation across accents. But nothing has opened my eyes to those differences quite like...Continue reading→
AI Still Can’t Draw These 6 Everyday Things Correctly!
Generative Artificial intelligence can craft jaw-dropping landscapes or surreal portraits, yet it sometimes flubs details so basic that even a kindergartener would notice. Ever asked for a left-handed chef and gotten a right-handed one flipping pancakes? Or requested a casual wristwatch only to see it stuck at 10:10 like a broken clock? These blunders aren’t...Continue reading→
Struggling with Medical Jargon? Here’s How AI Turned My Hospital Report into Plain English
“Ever stared at a hospital report and felt completely lost? That was me, until I found a way to simplify it with AI.” Navigating the world of medical reports can feel like trying to read a foreign language. Between the complex terminology, abbreviations, and dense explanations, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Recently, I found myself...Continue reading→