In other circumstances, the usually pragmatic Singapore government would have already abandoned a plan with such a low success rate. Yet it seems hesitant about hawker centers: it wants to preserve them, but not overprotect those who work there. Although it believes in a free market, the government does not want the 8,000 private outlets and numerous restaurants to eliminate the need for state-run hawker centers.
current Prime Minister Lawrence Wong compared Singapore to a plate of Hainanese curry rice: a mix of Western, Chinese, Malay and Indian influences. “ Such a unique dish ,” he said, “can only be found in an inclusive and multicultural society like ours .” Never mind that the Muslim minority doesn’t recognize themselves in a fax lists pork dish, or that Hainanese curry rice is so obscure that the main local newspaper had to run an article explaining it. Apparently, Singaporean politicians like street food metaphors even more than the food itself.esigner Blair Vermette leveraged AI using tools like ARunwayML, Midjourney, Adobe Creative Suite, and Upscaled by Topaz to create one of the first fully AI-powered commercials. And this is the result.
The main peculiarity of this campaign is that the advertised products do not yet physically exist: they were imagined and visualized through artificial intelligence without a preliminary physical production process. As soon as the video was launched, the demand for the products skyrocketed.
This shows how AI is revolutionizing not only content creation, but also the way desires and expectations are generated for products that are not yet tangible realities.