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?
Beyond Electric Sheep
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 French Bulldog harassing his vacuuming robots, and Ed talks about a San Francisco mob burning a Waymo car. What can we expect when Humanoid Robots interact with people on a massive scale around the world?
The name of this podcast, Beyond Electric Sheep, is a reference to the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. That novel is the source for the movies Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). It explores the themes of artificial intelligence, empathy, and reality in a dystopian future where humans and androids coexist.
The novel raises the question of whether androids can dream or feel anything at all, and whether they are different from humans in any meaningful way.
In our Beyond Electric Sheep podcast we go beyond the novel and the movies and discuss the broader implications and applications of artificial intelligence in our personal lives and in our businesses. We explore the pragmatic as well as the ethical and philosophical issues that arise from creating and interacting with intelligent machines.
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