LinkedIn News AI Conversations in Asia
Eveline’s trial and error with AI was featured by LinkedIn News among the Top Perspectives.
I’ve written about my trial and error with AI while building Acrostics Asia over the past year.
These posts were featured by LinkedIn News among the Top Perspectives, which are posts and comments from members that are relevant to the topic and add insight or context on the story beyond the headline.
AI Conversations in Asia
19 June 2026
Exactly a year ago, I took an AI course in Singapore where my classmates included scientists, a retired grandmother, a train captain and a monk.
Some of them went ahead to learn a new technology even though it was unfamiliar – and perhaps scary – to them, and I told myself I had no excuse.
It’s been a trial and error with AI ever since. I use ChatGPT for research and scenario analysis, but Claude is superior on visuals such as building charts and converting images into my colours (it can also turn a screenshot into text). I dropped Perplexity along the way because its answers weren’t helpful enough.
AI is a double-edged sword. It’s not an exaggeration to say that I wouldn’t have been able to build Acrostics Asia in such a short time without AI. But I also read the recent headlines about AI-triggered layoffs with concern and empathize with those affected.
In a race to embrace the AI era, South China Morning Post reported that China’s universities are cutting 12,000 so-called obsolete degrees to align higher education with the nation’s development goals.
This may have an unintended side effect, as degrees such as liberal arts help to develop critical thinking and shouldn’t be dropped in favour of ‘hardcore’ tech subjects.
The one thing that differentiates humans from AI is judgment: knowing right or wrong, verifying the source of information, and understanding nuances.
For example, people should be able to assess whether AI-generated answers are accurate or an over-generalization – and not take them as incontrovertible facts.
I wrote early this year that in an age when AI permeates a myriad of industries and PR professionals outnumber journalists by six to one, being real is more precious than ever. This is still true now and I believe for a long time to come.
👉🏻 Read the rest of the conversations here.
Impact of AI on Originality
30 June 2025
I’ve been experimenting with AI to build multimedia packages (Leonardo AI, Lumen5, Canva, aiCarousels etc) and improve my research/brainstorming (mostly ChatGPT for now).
AI has been pretty mind-blowing and sobering at the same time, so I’ve been documenting my experiment.
AI is a double-edged sword and the net effect depends on who’s wielding it. Yes, it’ll take away a lot of jobs, but it can also help us to level up if we know how to use it.The challenge is figuring out where AI fits into the production chain, so we have more bandwidth to focus on the areas where we can add value.
Templates exist because they are a tried and tested formula that can help us to complete our tasks more efficiently. If something works, why not do it again and again?
AI is the ultimate template machine as it can draw patterns from terabytes of data and churn out how-to guides on a massive scale. But I would rather not write from a template because my writing style – however imperfect it may be – was shaped by my own thoughts and experience.
Can we co-exist with AI and still retain our originality?
Perhaps one of the ways is to use AI for the commoditized tasks, such as building charts, so we’ll have more bandwidth to focus on what makes us unique. But I recognize that AI is getting more and more advanced by the day!
AI is a game-changer that’s fundamentally changing the way we operate and I’m still trying to wrap my mind around it – if that’s even possible.
👉🏻 Read the rest of the conversations here and here.
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