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Inside Singapore’s AI ‘Coachella’: Will the tech elite leave room for us?
A conference for the foot soldiers of the AI world showed a tribe more empathetic to those left behind than its kingpins – but with no patience for refuseniks.
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Participants taking a wefie with Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan following his keynote address at the AI Engineer Singapore conference on May 16.
PHOTO: MOONRISE STUDIO/65LABS
How do I describe the confab of artificial intelligence engineers I attended over the weekend of May 16 and 17?
My columnist’s tic is to reach for a pop-culture shorthand, so I told colleagues later that I had attended a “mini-Coachella” for AI. I think the smattering of fellow non-AI people in attendance would agree that this was the vibe at the event, called AI Engineer Singapore.
