In a world flooded with online opinions, we need to talk less and do more. In the case of “Black Myth: Wukong”, I’ve spent very little time listening to people complaining about the game’s so-called issues, and most of my free…
I found a new way to augment myself and maximize my time with Generative AI. Today, while jogging, I used the new AI Reader app by ElevenLabs to listen to a very long article with 10,000 words. This was great,…
I was so relieved that Black Myth: Wukong, the first AAA game by a Chinese studio, didn’t flop on release. Instead, it garnered 2.2 million concurrent users on the Steam PC gaming platform – the second highest number ever. The…
To warm up the media writing class at NTU, I invite the undergrads to introduce themselves and then ask me any question about myself. This opens me up to the risk of potentially embarrassing questions, but I tell them, “Don’t…
I recently had a chat with a young lady working in a startup. She wanted to know how she could use ChatGPT or other Gen AI apps to help her with marketing, among the many other startup stuff she is…
I think some people get confused that I teach two opposing skills: the traditional art of writing vs using Gen AI to churn out content. Ah, but life is about contradictions. Take this post for example. I am writing this…
Yesterday, a student asked how I felt about Gen AI being trained on the works of artists without their consent. I gave a very long answer, and here’s part of my response. First, I shared these two images of Albert…
When Susan Ng invited me to her Saturday radio show Family Ties, I was happy that it would be a live, in-person interview. “I really don’t like to call in over Zoom, it’s just not the same” I told her.…
My wife scolded me for not going to bed early last night. I said, “Just one more try!” No, I was not doing anything naughty or playing Nioh 2 (an amazing Japanese action game). I was generating images in Flux,…
Spent the past three hours playing around with Flux, the new AI imaging model made by former Stable Diffusion employees. The prompt: “2D mosaic of rooster, red blue and yellow tiles, white plaster background, yellow sun, white clouds”. Flux is…