Posted in Entertainment Interview

Interview with the Secret Queen of Animation: Diane Paloma Eskenazi

In a hip-hop class at Millennium Dance Complex, I met Diane Paloma Eskenazi, a veteran animator who casually mentioned that she founded her company, Golden Films, in the 1990s and has been producing and directing animated films for more than three decades. Her remarkable career instantly caught my attention, and I knew there was a story worth telling. Inspired and intrigued, I reached out to Eskenazi for an in-depth interview with CHOPSO.

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Posted in Culture Entertainment

An AI Future for Writers and Creators

First, as someone who has used and observed technology since I was 12, getting my first Apple IIe in 1983, all technology, including AI, is not to be feared of but rather understood and used. Having worked with the advancement of computing, the transition of celluloid to digital filmmaking and flatbed editing to non-linear editing… etc., I can attest that AI, like any other technology, is not here to impede but to simplify and enhance human life.

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Posted in Hong Kong Tech

Scarlet Johansson Robot Debuts in Hong Kong

Perhaps inspired by Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her, a Hong Kong man spent $50,000 of his own money and built a lifelike robot that has an uncanny resemblance…

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Posted in US

Microsoft Unknowingly Unleashed a Hitler-loving AI

The world is introduced to an artificial intelligent chat bot yesterday via Twitter. The official account of the A.I. named Tay was designed to absorb and…

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