That evening, Karni Ilyas looked somehow different. The senior journalist greeted viewers in his trademark hoarse voice and proceeded to introduce two women whom he said would join the ranks of the country’s news presenters. Ilyas’ appearance was definitively strange and so were that of the two women he presented. They all appeared stiff and...

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence(AI)-based chatbot developed by OpenAI has caught the attention of the media. Given its capabilities you’d think that journalists would rush to use it, at least as an aid to their story writing. ChatGPT could do the heavy lifting on their desktop research, generating story ideas and perhaps even help with a...

If there’s an easy way to describe what parenting life looks like, it would be a line from Barney in How I Met Your Mother. When he saw his newborn baby he said: “You are the love of my life, everything I am and everything I have is yours forever.” Parenting is a lifelong process,...

I have listened to many discussions among my fellow creative workers, surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Some claim that it has the potential to replace human creativity. This conversation was sparked by the rising popularity of Dall-e and Chat GPT, two platforms developed by Open AI. Today, AI has clearly become more efficient,...

Reading a book about Stoicism at the end of 2021, I found something that I think is the simplest, most relevant piece of philosophy. More than just a mere thought, it is something that you have to practice. And the first step that you need to do is to understand what to “control”. But the...

We often talk about how brutal haters can be on the internet, but rarely do we touch on ways public figures or anyone deal with them. A recent phenomenon, however, shows that money can sometimes effectively turn haters into allies or fans. The Digital Civility Index (DCI) report from Microsoft in 2020 shows that Indonesian...