Why we created FindMyRyokan, a ryokan recommender

Recently I started to blog about a recommender project, Find My Ryokan that I am a PM of. I intend to write a series discussing the motivation, methodology and metrics of the recommender. My first post describes current traveler challenges and what we aim to solve. My second post shows how we use the latest tourism trends to guide our product design.

March 9, 2025 · 1 min · 62 words · Tiffena Kou

Too much creativity, or too little humanity in a GenAI priest

Now that generative AI has become a household name, most people has already chatted with a bot whether you’re aware of it or not. Some users are aware of its sporadic shortfalls and especially hallucinations, and thus will deliberately take its output with a grain of salt. In areas such as generating a poem or image for fun, unbound creativity might not hurt that much. But what if it is in a religious setting, when there are straight thresholds for interpretation?...

May 24, 2024 · 5 min · 1034 words · Tiffena Kou