Hello World (Again)
I’ve kept a blog in one form or another since 2007. This is the latest. I built it in 24 hours, with help from AI — and this time there’s Seven.
Reza Ali
The Genius With A Thousand AI Agents
If I gave you RM60,000 a year to spend on AI agents, how would you spend it? I run about fifteen of them and spend around RM500 a month. When I tried to imagine ten times that, I hit a wall.
We Are Training Ourselves to Talk Like Machines
To get better results from generative AI, you have to change the way you think. The way you ask. The words and phrases you use. Garbage in, garbage out, as they say. The better you become at getting AI to give you what you need, notice how it changes the way you speak to people.
I Registered as an Organ Donor in 2022
I registered as an organ donor in 2022. I was taught that good deeds should be done in secret. However, I am breaking that rule today for a public service announcement.
AI: A Zero-Sum Game for Sustainability?
As part of my PhD ambitions, I am doing my desk research on the intersection between AI and Sustainable Development. It’s impossible to ignore the elephant in the room: the exponential increase of energy requirements of…
What Sustainable Development is Really About
I spent the better part of two years, from 2022 to 2024, pursuing a Master’s in Sustainable Development Management (MSDM) at the Jeffrey Sachs Center. It was a journey of intense learning, with subjects ranging from the…
2 reports on the state of AI in business and in the Malaysian Financial Sector
I was involved in some large scale IT and dotcom implementation in the early 2000s. Millions of dollars spent on acquiring software and hardware based on the promise of efficiency, cost reductions, revenue increase.…
BNM AI Report: Artificial Intelligence in the Malaysian Financial Sector
BNM’s AI Report and the Missing Piece of the Puzzle: A Call for Conscious Integration Bank Negara Malaysia’s new discussion paper on Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services has created a lot of conversation, and…