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title: "The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity"
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# The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity

**Brand:** byron reese
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- **What is this?** The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity by byron reese
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## Customer Reviews

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    I'd recommend The Fourth Age to anyone interested in the future ...
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2018*

Byron takes us on a journey through the history of human technological and societal development, and asks a set of philosophical questions that help frame how to think about the age we're in now, centered on the concept of developing machines that think.  Without trying to guide the reader to a particular conclusion, Byron asks you to contend with basic questions - such as what YOU are, fundamentally, and how that shapes your thinking about the age we're in.If you're an avid reader of futurist thinking or speculative fiction, you'll find a lot of familiar concepts here, but framed within the arc of history and with a focus on the implications for the human condition.  If you're not, Byron helps guide you into the kind of thinking required to really evaluate the implications of AI.  I'd recommend The Fourth Age to anyone interested in the future of humanity, it's deep enough to provoke new thoughts in the experienced thinker in this space, and approachable enough to be your first introduction.And at the risk of a minor spoiler - Byron concludes with a prediction for what comes after this age - and it's a prediction that is centered on a well-reasoned, but fundamentally very optimistic outlook on humanity - what we might look like with our potential fully realized on the other side of this Fourth Age.  Whether or not you agree with his prediction - you'll definitely want to.

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    Very disappointing
  

*by D***Z on Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2019*

The author does a poor job from both journalism and science perspectives.  In fact, the second half of the book seems to be a bunch of filler, concerning other topics about the future and how 'great' our civilization has been and will be, rather than keeping to topic.  Fine, so the author is an optimist.  An optimist paying close attention to page count rather than the demands of the topic.  The first half of the book is hardly better.  Instead of an analysis, the author asks dozens (maybe hundreds) of rhetorical questions, and concludes that your answers to the basic ones establish what you expect / believe will happen with AI and robotics.  These are questions concerning whether you believe the soul or consciousness are unique to humans or can accept that mathematical calculations are all that is fundamentally involved.  However, the book becomes a real let down when it regurgitates these answers to tell you what you think.  Doh.  Ask yourself if you want to buy a book that tells you more about yourself than the topic.  The book has essentially no references, which reflects the fact that it is just a long essay.  A cop out.  And a waste of time.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Best book on AI and the future that I have read
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2018*

This is the best book in AI, robots, and their implications for the future that I have read in at least a decade, and certainly the most relevant for where we stand as a society today. The author's prose is exceptionally readable and creative. It incorporates a summary of ideas already in circulation (and thus is appropriate for someone without a background in AI), and also introduces original ideas that I have not seen anywhere else. I highly recommend this book.

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