On the TechWaterloo stage ×1
First seen on the TechWaterloo stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about John ↗
In their words
The elephant inside the room that no one's talking about today is: what is AI going to be learning from?
We have a responsibility for what we put out onto the web, because that is going to form the foundational layer of what our artificial intelligence is going to learn from.
90% of the world's information, the data, has been created in the last two years. Just pause for a second and think about what's out there — that is the basis.
Quick answers
Who is John Tukums?
Founder and CEO of DeepSubconscious.ai, a Waterloo-region wellness-software company. He also founded the World Happiness Foundation and wrote Sustaining Happiness, and spoke at TechWaterloo on AI and human well-being.
What was his TechWaterloo talk about?
The 'AI elephant in the room' — that artificial intelligence learns from the content humans put on the web, so what we publish matters. He argued we have spent far more effort on external technology than on advancing human cognitive capacity.