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 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 feeling in more detail and compare and contrast AI versus human art. They wonder if the eventual perfect quality of AI art will actually make it worth less than human created art with all its flaws. How will these differences manifest themselves in all the various forms of art, including music, painting, dance, and other media. Will a perfect robotic dance be more beautiful than a human dancer’s performance? Maybe the “perfection” in AI art will result in reduced value.
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