E37 Autonomous Excavators

In this Episode 37 of the Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss the creation and deployment of Autonomous Excavators as discussed in Ed's recent article (link below). But, instead of excavators, the conversation focuses more on Ed's writing process and how he uses multiple AI models to write interesting articles on a variety of topics.

Ed's Excavator Article - https://medium.com/@edbdaniels/my-grandson-wants-to-run-an-excavator-64e3e720fdc7?sharedUserId=edbdaniels

Ed's Space Probe article with a link to the simulation on GitHub -  https://medium.com/@edbdaniels/we-built-a-galaxy-to-prove-good-values-win-they-didnt-f40e82d78c13?sharedUserId=edbdaniels

Link to all of Ed's Medium articles - https://medium.com/@edbdaniels 

The name of the podcast comes from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick that explores empathy, artificial life, and what it means to be human.

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