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Thoughts On Meta.AI

Meta is going all out to contest ChatGPT for mindshare in Generative AI. In the past week, Meta has… – Added AI chatbot in WhatsApp,…

Listen to your heart (rate)

Our bodies talk to us all the time, but how do we listen? One way is by using a watch that measures your heart rate.…

My new lighting setup for calls

Four years after the pandemic started, I finally have a proper lighting setup for my online calls. Better late than never! My setup comprises of…

Writers are Jedi

Come August, my colleagues and I will be teaching the long-running “Basic Media Writing” course to a new batch of undergrads at Nanyang Technological University…

Newsletter 09: Decrease, not increase

I often meditate on teachings from Kaibara Ekiken, a 17th century samurai who was also a doctor, botanist and philosopher (yes, a true polymath): “There…

WKWSCI is now 4th in the world rankings

My alma mater and my place of teaching, the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU), is now…

We didn’t ask for this tech

I’m not surprised that early media reviews have declared the Humane AI Pin a failure. Nobody asked for this, just like clunky VR and AR…

Get to know more adults

This is a great commentary by Jonathan Sim about how youths should build relationships with working adults to gain confidence about the working world. Excerpt:…

Gen AI talk at SingHealth Comms Summit

Last Friday (5th April), I had the honour of giving a talk on Generative AI to communication professionals from SingHealth, Singapore’s largest group of healthcare…

Editing ChatGPT images

You can now “edit” your AI images in ChatGPT 4, but I’m not sure if it’s worth your time. For those who subscribe to ChatGPT,…

Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast

Fellow comms professionals often ask me worriedly about the impact of Gen AI, saying, “What is going to happen to writers when AI can do…