NEW SCIENCE FICTION AND SCIENCE FACT THEMED EPISODES OF PODCAST “VOICES IN AI" NOW AVAILABLE

Voices in AI, voicesinai.com, a series of in-depth interviews between Byron Reese and leading thinkers in AI, has released Volume 3, a series of four interviews with science fiction and science fact authors and filmmakers. Volume 3 is a collection of 4 new episodes, all available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and SoundCloud. The four guests featured are: Martin Ford (Author, Rise of the Robots), Daniel H. Wilson (Roboticist; Author, The Clockwork Dynasty), Robert J. Sawyer (Author, Quantum Night), and James Barratt (Documentarian; Author, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era).

"There is no more exciting topic on the planet than AI, and we are delighted to be part of the conversation about how this technology will change business… and the world. Voices in AI explores the philosophical implications of this technology, covering topics as far ranging as the impact of automation on employment all the way up to the possibility of conscious machines," says Byron Reese, the Publisher of Gigaom.

Voices in AI serves listeners interested in the implications of AI beyond those of the daily news, who want to understand the metaphysical implications of AI, as well as the practical ones. Fifty episodes have been recorded to date, and they will be released steadily over the next three months. Previous episodes feature: Yoshua Bengio (Professor; author, Deep Learning), Oren Etzioni (CEO of [Paul] Allen AI Institute), Mark Rolston (argodesign), Jeff Dean (Google), Daphne Koller (Coursera), Nick Bostrom (Author, Superintelligence), Esther Dyson (Author, Investor), Soumith Chintala (Researcher at Facebook AI Research), Suchi Saria (Professor at John Hopkins), among others. Upcoming guests include: Manoj Saxena, Pedro Domingos, Stephen Wolfram, Hugo Larochelle, Tim O'Reilly, Nova Spivack and more.

About Host Byron Reese
Byron Reese is the CEO and publisher of Gigaom, a technology research and analysis firm, dedicated to helping business leaders understand the implications of emerging technologies and their impacts on business, media, and society.

Byron’s upcoming book is The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity, and is set to be published in April 2018 by Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. He is also the author of Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger and War.

For more information, contact Jessica Thompson at jessica.thompson@gigaom.com or visit the official website: http://www.voicesinai.com