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50. COLLAGE OF REFLECTIONS
17/04/2024
When you start blogging, you're never quite sure where it will take you. I guess it was as much an impulse as conscious strategy just over six years ago to write about my 'feelings' with the birth of the new CPLS website. As I wrote back then, "let it be a collage of my reflections at this point in time....
49. TRANSLATION AND THE SYNERGY OF AI AND CI
20/03/2024
When the political scientist Steven Weber compared translation to transportation, he was talking of ideas and knowledge not of people and goods. Instead of a horse-drawn carriage, it's now a process of accelerated multilingual communication, especially with the use of AI tools. Since the adoption of neural networks in 2015, translation algorithms...
When I was an English teacher in China, I was asked by a student why we say 'two million' rather than 'two millions'. His logic was sound: two of something makes it plural and plurals usually end with an 's'. It's never satisfying to then have to tell a student that he'll need to just ignore logic to learn English...
47. LONG LIVE THE KING
10/05/2023
So, there he was in all his crowning glory at the age of 74, finally becoming what his whole life was leading up to: King Charles III. A long wait. Abdication in the UK, unless for breach of protocol, has no tradition. For sons of queens, it seems, a long and testing time awaits before they can fulfill their destiny....
I was first exposed to ChatGPT – the now-famous artificial intelligence chatbot by research lab OpenAI – last December when my father shared an article outlining what it could mean for future AI technology. The twist? The entire first half of the article was written by ChatGPT itself, yet I never suspected a thing. As a copywriter, I felt my...
45. IS THERE A WORD-SURGEON IN THE HOUSE?
15/03/2023