REPLAY: Byron Reese - AI Consciousness, Tech Progress and 4th Age of Humanity
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Byron Reese (@byronreese) is the CEO and publisher of Gigaom, an industry-leading technology research company. Byron’s also an award-winning author, speaker and futurist with a strong conviction that technology will...
show moreIn our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- Why the world is fundamentally improving and Byron is an optimistic realist
- How AI will transform the labor market and economy, leading to better jobs
- The reason optimism and pessimism are incredibly important to humanity’s survival, and evolution
- Why forecasting artificial general intelligence is just silly
- Will AI become conscious
- Why we’re entering a fourth era of humanity
- The reason Byron is a little worried about the prospect of bioterrorism
- How 25 years in the internet industry has evolved Byron’s view of the future
- Why the news drives fear and separation among us
- What to say to naysayers about technological progress
- Why social media will ultimately be a net positive to society
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