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