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
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, produced a usable game. This capability has huge implications for software developers, and for the evolution of AI. Ed asked Brick if he would advise a young person to pursue a programming career given AI’s new code-writing capabilities. Brick concluded that, for the mid-term future, there will still be opportunities for work in requirements definition, quality assurance, and security/safety. In the longer term, the best advice is to become an AI engineer.
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.
Beyond Electric Sheep is also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYg2J0jET_BPCKSnsxz8mleEmYogYJZhn