Beyond Electric Sheep

In this 12-minute episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson consider the future of AI in the healthcare Industry. Their discussion includes the juncture of AI and telemedicine and how AI will help improve access to care. They talk about how AI could improve both the availability and quality of disease screening, how AI can help physicians manage the onslaught of data from personal devices and sensors...

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 wi...

In this episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson ask the question, “Will AI make healthcare data standards obsolete?” AI tools like GPT-4 can transcribe and “understand” doctors’ notes. Ed explains how they can generate standardized codes based on natural language. Will AIs eventually be able to code and exchange data on their own without using the data standards we have worked so hard to create? Ch...

In this, our 9th episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss how AI is being adopted in many areas of the healthcare industry. Brick and Ed talk about how physician's notes and exam room dialogue are being transcribed and then parsed into standard codes. We also discuss how AI is being used in research and development and even in the surgical suite. It should be noted that there are United...

In Episode 5, we discuss the advent of Artificial Superintelligence and talk about the risks associated with their implementation. We consider their “Alignment” with human values and human interests. Finally, we ask the question, "Will Alignment and consciousness have to be designed into AIs, or some form of ethical behavior just emerge from superintelligence?" Featuring Ed Daniels and B...

In Episode 8 of the Beyond Electric Sheep podcast on AI, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson spend 8 minutes discussing how AI could be used to enhance democracy. News broadcasts constantly talk about the negative effects of social media and AI on our society. But there may be ways to use AI to help citizens participate more effectively in government decision making. In the local context, AI meeting sum...

In Episode 4, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss the current state and short-term future of AI. In ten minutes, they discuss The Turing Test, Artificial General Intelligence, and progress toward Artificial Super Intelligence.  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 movi...

Episode 7 of the Beyond Electric Sheep podcast on AI discusses what our future will be like living with other intelligent beings. Interestingly, this isn't the first time Homo Sapiens has lived with other intelligent being. In this episode, Brick Thompson and I discuss my Medium.com article "What's Past is Prologue" which can be found at  https://medium.com/@edbdaniels/whats-pa...

In our 6th episode of the Beyond Electric Sheep Podcast on AI, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels share our observations about what corporate executives and their management teams are thinking about #ai at the start of 2024. Who is using AI and in what ways? What are their fears and expectations? In a quick 12 minutes, we discuss our conversations about AI, and our expectations for 2024. The name of th...

Episode 3 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. In this episode we discuss LLM Prompting and Workflows. We talk about how we have used these tools in our daily work and share some tricks and techniques. Beyond Electric Sheep is also available on YouTub...

Welcome to our second episode of Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI. In this episode Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss how they use #LLM Large Language Models in their daily workflow. In only 10-minutes you can listen to a friendly back-and-forth chat about #AI and how we use it to increase our own productivity. Beyond Electric Sheep is also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com...

In this introductory podcast, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson introduce themselves and explain how they intend to take the listener on an exciting tour of this new world of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. Brick and Ed discuss the impact AI is having on businesses and careers, and how those who experiment with and embrace AI will succeed, but those who do not will be left behind. B...