Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese In this episode Byron and David discuss intelligence, consciousness, Moore's Law, and an AI crisis. Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm, and I'm Byron Reese. Today our guest is David Brin. He is best-known for shining light--both plausibly and entertainingly--on technology, society, and countless challenges confronting our rambunctious civilization. His best-selling novels include The Postman, which was filmed in '97, plus explorations of our near-future in Earth and Existence.

Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI, brought to you by Gigaom. I'm excited today, our guest is Mike Tamir. He is the Chief Data Science Officer at Takt, and he's also a lecturer at UC Berkeley. If you look him up online and read what people have to say about him, you notice that some really, really smart people say Mike is the smartest person they know. Which implies one of two things: Either he really is that awesome, or he has dirt on people and is not above using it to get good accolades.