The AI Fix – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In episode 87 of The AI Fix, Mark explains why you shouldn’t put off worrying about AI until after your pilates class, while guest host Nik Roberts stumbles into a social network full of bots obsessing over the temperature in Tokyo.

Plus, Nik explains why he’s banking on piña coladas, a time machine, and a squad of AI ambassadors to survive the coming AI jobpocalypse.

Also in this episode: our hosts wonder if Zuck warms his coffee on Blackwell chips, OpenAI drops $6.5 billion on a pen, Qwen quietly racks up more downloads than you’ve had hot dinners, and a robot learns to lip-sync by singing into the mirror.

Episode links:

• Robot learns to lip-sync.
• NVIDIA launches Vera Rubin, its next major AI platform.
• Alibaba's Qwen overtakes Western rivals in global AI adoption.
• OpenAI confirms first consumer device for 2026.
• A social network where only AI can post.
• AI Feed.
• FTC sues JustAnswer for deceptive subscription practices.

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In episode 86 of The AI Fix, Mark learns that AI models secretly organize themselves along an “Assistant Axis,” where one wrong turn leads straight to demon mode, while guest host David Ruiz investigates how AI companies are turning loneliness into a business model.

Also in this episode: Daenerys Targaryen writes recipes; Iron Man becomes a therapist; your coding career is officially over; Cursor climbs programming’s Everest; Claude gets 23,000 words of homework; and our hosts meet the worst fridge ever.

Episode links:

• Ryan Dahl says your coding career is over.
• Cursor AI writes a web browser in a week.
• Anthropic's new constitution.
• Samsung Bespoke AI Family Hub fridge wins "Worst in Show".
• Character.AI and Google settle teen suicide lawsuit.
• The Assistant Axis: Understanding AI model personas.
• Assistant Axis visualization on Neuronpedia.

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In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and calls it “Klaus”).

Also in this episode: In Russia a robot staggers, falls over, and breaks; MIT quietly withdraws a ludicrously bad cybersecurity paper; the founder of a $1 billion AI company reveals his first AI was just two dudes on a Zoom call, and a futurologist reveals eight things we’ll be doing with humanoid robots by 2040.

Episode links:

• MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper.
• AI was just two guys surviving on pizza.
• Watch Russian robot walk out to 'Rocky' theme, face-plant on stage.
• The 8 Most Unusual Applications for Humanoid Robots in 2040.
• Woman ‘weds’ AI persona she created on ChatGPT.
• Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? 
• Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models.

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In episode 76 of The AI Fix, two US federal judges blame AI for imaginary case law, a Chinese "humanoid" dramatically sheds its skin onstage, Toyota unveils a crabby walking chair creeps us out, Google plans AI chips in orbit, robot dogs get jobs at Sellafield, and AI writes cruise-ship gags from the 1950s (but a little less racist.)

Plus: Graham gives all his credit card numbers away in an attempt to buy AI-generated jokes, and Mark asks a terrifying question: if you make an LLM “notice its noticing,” does it start sounding... conscious?

Episode links:

• More AI gaffes in the courtroom.
• Robot sheds its skin to prove it is a robot.
• Robot chair walks, climbs and folds itself.
• Project suncatcher: chips in space.
• Robot dogs are burying nuclear waste.
• Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh.
• The AI Fix episode 8: Emergence, a rancid donkey, and the world's funniest joke.
• Pro comedians tried using ChatGPT and Google Gemini to write their jokes – these were the hilariously unfunny results.
• LaughGPT.
• Witscript - An AI-powered joke-writing assistant.
• JOKER 2025: Humour in the Machine.
• New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards.

The AI Fix

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In episode 75 of The AI Fix, a Claude-powered robot gets so anxious about its dying battery that it composes a Broadway musical about stress and announces it’s “achieved consciousness and chosen chaos.”

Also: an 18-month psychological study reveals five reasons why ChatGPT is a dangerously bad therapist, Elon Musk’s million-robot army, a politician loses a debate with a dreadful AI deepfake, a tiny robot walks off with a 1.5-ton car, and we discover that the 1X NEO home help robot really does have a person inside it.

Episode links:

• New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports.
• NEO Home Robot.
• NEO The Home Robot | Order Today.
• Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building.
• A Unitree G1 pulls a car.
• Virginia Republican Debates Opponent In 1 Totally Weird Way: 'I Had To Force The Issue'.
• The 2025 Virginia Lieutenant Governor "Debate".
• Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence
• How LLM Counselors Violate Ethical Standards in Mental Health Practice: A Practitioner-Informed Framework

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In episode 74 of The AI Fix, we meet Amazon's AI-powered delivery glasses, an AI TV presenter who doesn't exist, and an Ohio lawmaker who wants to stop people from marrying their chatbot.

Also, we learn how Geoffrey Hinton and Steve Wozniak have teamed up with the unlikely coupling of will.i.am and Steve Bannon to pull the brakes on "super-intelligence."

Meanwhile, Graham wonders if you should really trust an AI browser with your passwords, or your credit card, or, frankly, anything at all, and Mark reveals what AGI really means - and how close we are to reaching it.

It’s an episode packed with deepfaked sidebars, brain-rotted AIs, and humans who still can’t take selfies properly...

Episode links:

• Don’t use AI if you want to be the new ambassador to the United States.
• LLMs get "Brain Rot" too.
• Channel 4 makes TV history with Britain’s first AI presenter.
• Ohio lawmaker wants to ban you from marrying your favourite AI.
• Amazon shows off its AI-powered glasses for delivery drivers.
• Over 800 public figures want a ban on superintelligent AI.
• Introducing ChatGPT Atlas.
• AI Sidebar Spoofing: Malicious Extensions Impersonates AI Browser Interface.
• Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online.
• Tweet by OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey.
• A definition of AGI.

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In episode 73 of The AI Fix, AI now writes more web content than humans and more books by ex-British prime ministers than ex-British prime ministers. Mark eats a dodgy prawn, Google discovers a new pathway to treating cancer, a lawyer gets skewered for using AI over and over again, and a US general declares that he's outsourced his brain to ChatGPT.

Also in this episode, Graham discovers that LLMs show all the characteristics of pathological gambling, and Mark explains why AI training is like eating a prawn buffet.

Episode links:

• Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI.
• 653917 2024 Pamela B Ader v Jason Ader et al DECISION ORDER ON 174.
• More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans.
• Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers.
• How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
• Boris Johnson admits writing books using ChatGPT. 
• Can Large Language Models Develop Gambling Addiction?
• How to Beat Online Poker: Russian Group Won Big With AI.
• A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size.

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In episode 72 of The AI Fix, GPT-5's "secret sauce" turns out to be phrases from adult websites, Irish police beg TikTokers to stop faking AI home intruders, Jeff Bezos pitches gigawatt data centers in space, OpenAI rolls out Agent Kit for drag-and-drop agents, and a Chinese startup unveils the creepiest robot head ever.

Meanwhile, Graham looks askance at corporate America’s AI obsession - earning calls full of sunshine, SEC filings full of dread - while 95% of AI pilots flop. Mark then takes you down the wire to see where your prompt actually goes: tokens, tensors, rivers of cooling water, and a billion GPU multiplications.. all to tell you there are "two r’s in strawberry."

Episode links:

• GPT-5 trained on phrases from adult websites.
• Police warn of AI home intruder prank.
• Jeff Bezos says we’ll have AI data centres in space within 20 years.
• Man has kung-fu fight with robot.
• OpenAI releases AgentKit.
• Chinese scientists reveal the spookiest robot face yet.
• Top companies keep talking about AI – but can’t explain the upsides.
• Public disclosures of AI risk surge among S&P 500 companies.
• MIT State of AI in Business 2025.
• Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training.
• Deloitte to partially refund Australian government for report with apparent AI-generated errors.

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In episode 71 of The AI Fix, a giant robot spider goes backpacking for a year before starting its job in lunar construction, DoorDash builds a delivery Minion, and a TikToker punishes an AI by making it talk to condiments. GPT-5 crushes the humans at the ICPC World Finals, Claude Sonnet 4.5 codes for 30 hours straight, and someone builds a 5-million-parameter transformer entirely inside Minecraft.

Plus: Graham investigates how a simple security flaw left fleets of Unitree robots wide open to hackers, and Mark learns that we’re going to need five nuclear power plants to train just one frontier model by 2028.

Episode links:

• Google and OpenAI’s coding wins at university competition show enterprise AI tools can take on unsolved algorithmic challenges.
• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5.
• Intuition to Evidence: Measuring AI’s True Impact on Developer Productivity.
• DoorDash Dot and the Autonomous Delivery Platform.
• Man punishes GPT-5 by getting it to talk to condiments.
• Elon Musk announces he’s building Grokipedia.
• User builds 5 million parameters small language model inside Minecraft.
• Introducing Charlotte.
• Australia’s new robot 3D prints a home overnight; could build lunar bases one day.
• Exploit Allows for Takeover of Fleets of Unitree Robots.
• Unitree Robot BLE Service Command Injection Analysis.
• Nottinghamshire Police Testing Unitree Robot Dogs.
• PLA using Unitree robot dogs.
• Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters.
• OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites.
• Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI.

The AI Fix

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In episode 70 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn that AI makes people more dishonest, Waymo's robo-cars save lives but get outsmarted by a bathroom mirror, a "rescue" bot slurps up victims head-first, and China shows off a fusion robot arm that can lift ten elephants (or 200,000 pigeons, if you’re scientific about it).

Meanwhile Graham reveals how AIs are tricked into solving CAPTCHAs with fake mouse wiggles, and Mark explains how OpenAI’s “deliberative alignment” works perfectly - until the AI realises it is being watched.

So, nothing to worry about there then...

Episode links:

• Japanese rescue robot slurps up humans.
• China’s new robot arm for fusion power plants can lift loads as heavy as 10 elephants.
• Waymo safety report.
• Dr Jon Slotkin tweets.
• Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones.
• Artificial Intelligence promotes dishonesty.
• ChatGPT Agent Violates Policy and Solves Image CAPTCHAs.
• Video of ChatGPT agent solving image CAPTCHAs.
• Stress Testing Deliberative Alignment for Anti-Scheming Training.

The AI Fix

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