Elena Yunusov

Executive Director, Human Feedback Foundation w Linux AI & Data | Per Aspera Ad Astra | Here to build a future that I’m from

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

Awesome AI Tinkerers tonight thank you to @Shopify and @googlecloud for the support!

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Yegor Sak, CEO of @Windscribecom on Bill C-22:

“For us, it's not a preference. If the bill is passed in its current shape and form, we cannot operate out of Canada, because the entire point of the service is defeated.”

https://t.co/oRSjmpEGmE

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

The real story here is China pulling ahead and massively

[CTV News @CTVNews]

97% of Canadian universities fall in global rankings https://t.co/C8EyM8DfQ5

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

How about making architecture we have on earth more beautiful. Just across the board.

[FINMAN @erikfinman]

Architecture in space should be more beautiful than Paris. Nobody will move to the Moon or Mars to live in an Apple Store.

We need fantasy scifi art levels of beauty in space settlements.

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

If software is a service industry, who exactly is VP of Service?

And why do we have VP of Product and obsession with product building as if software was a finite good to be sold at set value?

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Leo XIV’s new encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” presents a remarkable case for placing moral concerns, and not profit, or competitive advantage, or efficiency, at the center of any discussion of artificial intelligence. https://t.co/5ULi3RB0ed

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

To read later

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Just posted: My latest TED talk. I look at technology from the perspective of human ultrasociality -- deep needs for community and communion. From that view, you can see how social media, edtech, and especially AI block human flourishing

https://t.co/htYeTCCIYo

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The end will begin when humanity turns away from humanity

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#AI can be a valuable tool and, at the same time, it calls for a measured and vigilant approach. The speed and simplicity with which practical assistance can be accessed undoubtedly makes life easier. Yet they can also encourage excessive reliance and the search for ready-made answers, and weaken personal creativity and judgment. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[Gil Meslin @g_meslin]

I find it both hilarious and sad that the exact stretch of Yonge that looked roughly like this in my lifetime now has the City cracking down on the signage adorning small food kiosks.

[PsudoMike 🇨🇦 @PsudoMike]

CentML sold to Nvidia for $400M. Before that, the Toronto team couldn't get a single Canadian enterprise to try their product. Bay Area companies had no problem.

The founder said it plainly at Toronto Tech Week: you don't even get in the door here. Not even with connections.

We keep asking why builders leave.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Jesse Rodgers @jrodgers]

@Mashcr0ft The sensitivity to non-status-quo thinking needs to adjust if there is to be any hope of progress.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Steven Spielberg had to convince John Williams, who is 94, to score Spielberg’s latest film Disclosure Day. It sounds like from early reviews that Williams knocked out of the park, despite the fact 100 is within sight. I’m so happy these two made another film together. Let’s roll

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Humans will soon replace AI.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

No changes to metadata retention, secret Ministerial orders, lowered standards for access to subscriber information, or incompatible rules on challenging systemic vulnerabilities.
How is an error-filled scrum being heralded as a major change to Bill C-22?
https://t.co/HtcjFmEHFW

[jami attenberg @jamiattenberg]

My current best understanding of contemporary life is everything costs at least sixty dollars now.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

This has been a given for some time, but with the Online Harms Act likely to swap in social media and AI chatbot bans for kids under 16 that will require IDs for tens of millions of Canadians to use those services, this isn’t a great trade.
https://t.co/aOTvtXskq5