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 the potential to deliver individualized learning to every child. 

Brick acknowledges the work of Ethan Mollick, Associate Professor at Wharton who advocates for the use of AI in education. https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick/ Brick and Ed also credit Salman Khan, a former hedge fund analyst with degrees from MIT and Harvard, who founded the Khan Academy. https://en.khanacademy.org/. 

Brick explains how he personally uses AI (Perplexity) to learn about specific topics. The podcast ends with Brick and Ed concluding that some of the methods used by educational AI could also be applied to everyday use of AI making people smarter and more knowledgeable after each AI encounter. 

Featuring Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson, 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