The questions we will grapple with in today’s show are not about transistors and neurons and algorithms and such. They are about the nature of reality, humanity, and mind. The confusion happens when we begin with “What jobs will robots take from humans?” instead of “What are humans?” Until we answer that second question, we can’t meaningfully address the first.

We welcome serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO, of GigaOM and author of “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” Byron Reese.

We talk:

The evolution of our brains
Fire as the first technology
Language development
Storytelling
Digital Dementia
Distribution of Labour
The Beginning of Wealth
The Beginning of ownership
The shift to agriculture
The age of computation
Moore’s law
Exponential change
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial General Intelligence
Robotics
The limitation of Robotics
Computer Consciousness
Our human potential

We mention digital dementia during the show, here is a piece I wrote on it: https://medium.com/thethursdaythought/planet-of-the-ai-pes-digital-dementia-and-digital-zombies-f4f3454ca664

More about Byron here:
www.byronreese.com