Why Eating Alone Doesn't Feel Lonely Anymore
“How many?” “One, please.” It is a simple exchange at the entrance to a restaurant. Yet not so long ago, asking for a table for one could feel strangely uncomfortable. The host mig…
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เปิดแผน AI Nation 2030 ของมาเลเซีย
ภายในปี 2030 มาเลเซียต้องการเป็นมากกว่าประเทศที่ประชาชนและธุรกิจใช้AI รัฐบาลตั้งเป้าให้ประเทศสามารถสร้างเทคโนโลยี AI ของตนเอง มีบุคลากร ข้อมูล และโครงสร้างพื้นฐานรองรับการแข่งขัน ต…
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Inside Malaysia’s AI Nation 2030 Plan
By 2030, Malaysia wants to be more than a country in which people and businesses simply use artificial intelligence. It aims to develop AI technologies of its own, build the talent…
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Johor’s Data Centre Boom and the Future of Its Water Supply
Malaysia is investing heavily in the infrastructure needed to become an AI Nation by 2030. Yet data centres require far more than chips and electricity. They also depend on water,…
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Politics in the Age of AI
AI is giving politicians new ways to shape their public image, campaign without appearing in person and produce convincing attacks against their opponents. Governments are respondi…
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Does Knowledge That Never Reaches the Internet Have a Place in the World of AI?
Artificial intelligence can now answer questions about almost anything. It can explain the history of a city, translate unfamiliar expressions, describe religious practices, sugges…
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How Many Languages Are in a Cup of Kopi? Decoding Malaysia’s Kopitiam Menu
Walk into a Malaysian kopitiam and order: “Kopi O kosong peng, satu—tapau!” The person behind the counter will probably understand you immediately. You have asked for one iced blac…
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Why Did It Take Ten Years After Independence for Malay to Become Malaysia’s Official Language?
When the Federation of Malaya gained independence on 31 August 1957, Malay had already been recognised as the national language under Article 152 of the Federal Constitution. Why,…
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The Nation That Never Came into Being: When Malaya and Indonesia Nearly Declared Independence Together
Between 12 and 13 August 1945, an aircraft landed in Taiping, Perak, while returning from Indochina. On board were Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta, two nationalist leaders who, only day…
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(EP4) When AI Knows Too Much About Us: What Happens to Data Privacy and Security?
Every time we interact with AI, we are not merely sending a question into a system. We may also be revealing what we do for a living, what interests us, what concerns us, or even w…
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(EP3) — Epistemic Literacy: If Both Humans and AI Can Be Wrong, How Do We Know What Is True?
In the previous two articles, we began with a problem that has become increasingly important in the age of generative AI. In EP.1, we explored AI hallucination — the phenomenon in…
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(EP2) When AI Is Wrong, It Corrects the Answer. What Do Humans Do?
One warning now seems to accompany almost every conversation about generative AI: never assume that everything it produces is true. AI systems can generate inaccurate, misleading,…
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