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Exit $500 SkillsFuture credit. Enter ChatGPT and joy of learning
Amassing digital life skills for work and play at my AI class was fun and invigorating.
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The writer was learning with AI, rather than learning from AI, which she imagined is the scenario for much of lifelong learning.
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Hurrying to my SkillsFuture course in November, I imagined a collective rush to the exits across Singapore. Our one-off $500 SkillsFuture Credit top-ups, given way back in 2020 to assemble a future-ready citizen workforce, will expire on Dec 31. That deadline is imminent.
I chose an artificial intelligence (AI) course shoehorned into a full weekend, only because latecomers like me don’t have the luxury of time to learn at leisure. But wouldn’t it be cognitive overload for my brain? Overnight, I must master the secrets of designing successful AI prompts or instructions on ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini.

