Beyond Electric Sheep
Beyond Electric Sheep is a discussion of the impact Artificial Intelligence has on our personal and business lives. How will we interact with these human-like entities that have access to all realms of knowledge and the beginnings of human reasoning?
Episodes
33 episodes
E32 Bottom Rung
In this 13-minute Episode 32, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss AI's impact on employment and how the ‘Bottom Rung’ jobs may be going away…replaced by AI Agents. Brick notes that this will present a problem for companies where ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 32
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13:38
Robots
In this 12-minute episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson talk about how large language model AI technology is about to facilitate a huge advancement in robotics. Ed recently rewrote his science fiction novel "The Last of the Firefighters" where...
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Season 2025
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Episode 31
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12:49
NotebookLM
In this nine-minute Episode, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss Google’s NotebookLM, a fascinating new tool that generates a podcast from one or up to 50 source documents. All the Google user needs to do is to drag the intended files into th...
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Season 2025
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Episode 30
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8:55
Episode 29 - Deep Research
In this eleven minute Episode 29, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss AI's new Deep Research capabilities. Deep Research is a new capability that allows the AI user to pose a question or suggest a topic area, and ask the AI model to spend 5 -...
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Season 2025
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Episode 29
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11:24
E28 - Just Buy It!
In this ten-minute Episode #28, Just Buy It! Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels talk about whether it makes sense to buy a premium subscription to ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini. Brick argues it is important for all of us, young and old, t...
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Season 2025
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Episode 28
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9:29
Episode 27 - Book Writing
In this ten-minute Episode #27 - Book Writing, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels talk about Ed’s latest adventures in book writing. This was a topic of two previous podcasts, and now Ed is nearing his final product and has continued to learn...
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Season 2025
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Episode 27
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10:13
Episode 26 - Not UBI
In Episode 26 - Not UBI, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss Ed’s concept of the Citizen Ownership Dividend. It is a bold idea in response to AI-caused job displacement. The implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Intellig...
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11:56
Episode 25 - AI Adoption at Work
In this episode, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss how AI should be used in the work environment. Brick explains the steps he is taking to encourage his employees to use AI in a safe and secure manner. Working individually and ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 25
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10:47
E24 AI use in Education - Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI
AI use in Education is the topic for this 13-minute episode of the Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI. Brick explains the way we educate children today is the same way we educated them one hundred (or maybe even 1,000) years ago. Now AI has th...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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11:07
E23 - AI and Hiring - Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI
In this episode of the Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss AI and Hiring. How is AI being used to help you get a job? For employers, how can AI help you hire the best people? Our discussion extended into o...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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7:49
The Idea of Order at Key West
Thank you to my friend George Dykes for suggesting that I study this poem by Wallace Stevens.This audio dialogue and the following summary were both generated by an experimental AI from Google.Summary"The Idea of O...
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Season 1
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Episode 101
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10:57
Sagittal Alignment
SummaryThis article from The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery discusses the importance of sagittal alignment in the treatment of degenerative lumbar spine pathologies, such as degenerative disc disease and spondylolisthesi...
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Season 1
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Episode 100
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6:56
Past is Prologue 2024
This article explores the historical presence of other intelligent hominin species alongside Homo sapiens, emphasizing the potential lessons we can learn from their interactions. It speculates on how our ancestors might have interacted with the...
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Season 1
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Episode 104
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6:58
Space Data Centers
This Podcast is based on an article I published on Medium.com. The article discusses the growing energy demands of data centers, which are vital for artificial intelligence development, and proposes an innovative solution: space data centers. T...
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Season 1
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Episode 103
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8:43
Episode 19 – AI in Clinical Medicine - Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI
In this 11-minute episode of the Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss an AI application that Ed recently discussed with a large healthcare company. This application is in production and helps clinicians int...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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10:45
Episode 20 - AI and Art
In this 10-minute episode of the Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss AI and Art. Brick notes that he would pay more for human generated art as compared to AI generated art. Brick and Ed explore this feelin...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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10:16
E18 - Generating Code with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
In this 9-minute episode of the Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss how Brick asked Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to write the code for a Pong game. It did so and, after a few requests for modifications, p...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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9:56
Episode 17 - Using AI to Research a Personal Medical Condition
In this 13-minute episode of the Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss how ChatGPT 4o helped Ed understand his optical migraines. Brick asks Ed about his condition and Ed explains why he decided to discuss h...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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13:09
E16 – The Intersection of Stupid and Smart - Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI
Politics are getting dumber. AI is getting smarter. What happens when they meet? In this 12-minute episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss Ed’s latest Medium.com article, “
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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12:36
E14 Conference Follow-up - Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI
In this thirteen-minute Episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss a conference on AI that Ed facilitated recently. We discuss the “Event Bot” that Ed created and how it was received by conference attendees. We also discuss the conference a...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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13:41
Building an Event Bot - Episode 13 - Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI
In this 11-minute episode, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss a project Ed is working on to prepare for an AI workshop he is facilitating. He and the event host decided to build an “Event Bot” using an LLM that has knowledge of the upcoming ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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11:26
Episode 11 - The Future of AI in Healthcare - Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI
In this 12-minute episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson consider the future of AI in the healthcare Industry. Their discussion includes the juncture of AI and telemedicine and how AI will help improve access to care. They talk about how AI cou...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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11:45
Episode 12 - Embodied AI
In this 14-minute episode, Brick and Ed discuss Embodied AI. What happens when we give Humanoid Robots the intelligence and language capabilities of GPT-4? How will we respond to them and feel about them? Brick uses the example of his little Fr...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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13:48
Episode 10 - Will AI make Healthcare Data Standards Obsolete?
In this episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson ask the question, “Will AI make healthcare data standards obsolete?” AI tools like GPT-4 can transcribe and “understand” doctors’ notes. Ed explains how they can generate standardized codes based o...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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11:57
AI in Healthcare - Episode 9 - Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI
In this, our 9th episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss how AI is being adopted in many areas of the healthcare industry. Brick and Ed talk about how physician's notes and exam room dialogue are being transcribed and then parsed into st...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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9:56