The AI Fix – Details, episodes & analysis

In episode 23 of The AI Fix, an AI finds a new way to make life difficult for women in STEM, Graham reveals his brilliant idea for treating any medical emergency, a beloved chat show host returns from the grave, and our hosts learn that computer viruses were almost called computer weeds.

Graham tells Mark a story involving a murder, a moth, and an AI journalist, and Mark pits his co-host against the world's most advanced computer program in a maths Olympiad.

Episode links:

• AI to help doctors detect broken bones on X-rays.
• AI-powered garden will talk back to you.
• The world isn’t ready for AGI says OpenAI’s departing “senior adviser for the readiness of AGI”.
• Michael Parkinson is back from the dead to interview celebrities.
• New research shows robots could learn from YouTube videos.
• Opening scene of “Brazil”.
• OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway.
• Eileen Vagas’s profile on Muckrack.
• News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way.
• Letter From The Publisher: Hoodline's Transition to Hybrid Content.
• AI-Powered News Site Accidentally Accuses District Attorney of Murder.
• Bluesky post by Michael Masnick.
• Transluce.



The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode 22 of The AI Fix, our hosts encounter a bowl of buttermilk king crab ice cream prepared by a baby hippo, a TV station finds an even better way to generate programme ideas than using a tank full of manatees, and Elon Musk does the world's most expensive Blade Runner cosplay.

Graham discovers a robot tongue and ponders the implications of AIs with an appetite, and Mark explains ASCII smuggling — a prompt injection attack that uses completely invisible characters.

Episode links:

• Tweet by Elizabeth Laraki.
• Come and dine at Ethos, the AI restaurant that doesn’t exist.
• Ethos Instagram account.
• AI toilet cam takes pics of your poop.
• TV station says it is using AI to come up with programme ideas.
• Alan Partridge's Monkey Tennis.
• ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models.
• Elon Musk sued for using AI-generated Blade Runner imagery at robotaxi event.
• AI ‘tongue’ can ‘taste’ the difference between Coke and Pepsi.
• A matter of taste: Electronic tongue reveals AI inner thoughts.
• Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode 13 of The AI Fix, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, hear ChatGPT steal somebody's voice, and discover an AI that rick rolls its users.

Graham tells Mark about AI's political ambitions and discovers what ChatGPT has in common with the reluctant ruler of the universe, while Mark introduces Graham to the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

Episode links:

• GPT-4o System Card.
• A new study finds that AI poses no existential threat to humanity.
• Women are using ChatGPT to tell if men are lying about their height.
• AI caught rickrolling people.
• Women will be having more sex with robots than men by 2025.
• ChatGPT firm OpenAI strikes deal with Vogue owner.
• AI recreates stunning likeness of Shroud of Turin image that many believe to be Christ.
• Bosco the dog.
• Republican senator loses to dead rival in Missouri.
• AI Joe.
• Wyoming voters face mayoral candidate who vows to let AI bot run government.
• Victor Miller Harnesses Technology to Run for Mayor of Cheyenne.
• VIC (Virtual Integrated Citizen) Twitter account.
• "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
• China's military shows off robot dog with automatic rifle mounted on its back.
• Campaign to stop killer robots.
• Digby: the biggest dog in the world.
• Defence of Ukraine shows its use of robot dogs.
• What We Know About Ukraine’s Army Of Robot Dogs.
• Manta Ray.
• US completes first dogfight between AI-controlled F-16 and human pilot.
• DOD DIRECTIVE 3000.09 AUTONOMY IN WEAPON SYSTEMS

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on "do no evil", and our hosts feel like David Attenborough as they witness herds of Waymo robotaxis honking their late-night mating calls at each other.

Our hosts discover why it's OK to make AIs out of human brains, Mark takes Graham on an emotional roller coaster through the AI afterlife, and Graham comes last in a "who's the best Graham on the podcast?" competition.

Episode links:

• Elon Musk’s ‘fun’ AI image chatbot serves up Nazi Mickey Mouse and Taylor Swift deepfakes.
• Aspect - an AI social media app.
• Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’.
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Stanford Talk Gets Awkwardly Live-Streamed: Here’s the Juicy Takeaways.
• Meet Hermes, the new frontier model having an existential crisis.
• English ChatGPT users flummoxed by language glitch as bot turns Welsh.
• San Francisco neighbors say repeated Waymo honking is keeping them up at night.
• These 'living computers' are made from human neurons — and you can rent one for $500 a month.
• FinalSpark live stream.
• The Jessica Simulation: Love and loss in the age of A.I.
• Virtual reality "reunites" mother with dead daughter in South Korean documentary.
• Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted ‘hauntings’ by AI chatbots of dead loved ones.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there's no sound on a video of an AI dentist.

Graham finds religion with a little help from a man named "L Ron", a traffic cone saves the world, and Mark has a heated argument with belligerent ChatGPT.

Episode links:

• Judi Dench IS going to be the voice of AI.
• Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘deceit of Shakespearean proportions’.
• AI dentist performs surgery on human.
• Video of robot dentist at work.
• OpenAI built a text watermarking tool to detect content written by ChatGPT, but is refusing to release it.
• Google's Gemini AI Olympics-themed ad sparks fierce backlash.
• Google Gemini Olympics ad.
• Google's New Smart Thermostat Has (Yep, You Guessed It) AI Features.
• Two more OpenAI co-founders are leaving the company.
• Anthony Levandowski's Wikipedia entry.
• Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence.
• The Way of the Future is now a thing of the past.
• The AI Fix episode 10: An AI cookery dumpster fire, the ARC prize, and a creepy new AI friend.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode ten of The AI Fix, Graham attempts to say "quinoa", Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying trailer for a creepy new AI friend.

Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey mess, and learns an unusual trick for making a great mojito, while Mark pits his co-host against the cleverest AI brains in the world.

Episode links:

• OpenAI starts rollout of Advanced Voice Mode.
• UK Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans.
• Friend trailer.
• Artificial intelligence has hard time with accents.
• Netherlands court uses ChatGPT to decide things.
• Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights.
• Twitter thread on crockpot cookbook.
• Get ready for AI to rip off your favorite cookbooks.
• ‘One of the most disgusting meals I’ve ever eaten’: AI recipes tested.
• This cookbook author was a best-seller on Amazon — but she may not even be human.
• ARC Prize.
• ARC Prize leaderboard.
• On the Measure of Intelligence research paper by François Chollet.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch...

Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence.

Episode links:

• Meta launches Llama 3.1.
• OpenAI Unveils Cheaper, Small AI Model GPT-4o Mini.
• SearchGPT: OpenAI’s Prototype Aims to Challenge Google.
• Video Game Performers Strike Over AI.
• Nicolas Cage is ‘terrified’ of AI using his body and face when he’s dead.
• Dilbert Creator Claims He Taught ChatGPT Dangerous Hypnosis Techniques.
• Adult Content Creators Are Making SIX-Figure Salaries from Men Falling in Love with Subservient ‘AI Girlfriends’.
• Japanese AI Dating App Lets You ‘Marry’ a Bot.
• GB News Radio to Introduce AI-Generated News Bulletins.
• AI-powered vending machines are selling bullets.
• How Easy Is It To Purchase Ammo with AI-Powered Retail Vending Machines?
• Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers.
• AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway.
• OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward ‘Human-Level’ Problem Solving.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode eight of "The AI Fix", our hosts tackle the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence and learn about two important medical breakthroughs, Mark coughs, Graham ruins "Killing me softly", and neither shows their junk to an AI.

Graham explains humour to Mark and shares a donkey story he learned from a Bulgarian, ChatGPT reveals the funniest joke in the world, and Mark explains why AI's greatest talents can sometimes appear from thin air...

Episode links:

• Cambridge University researchers say their AI tool may have made a breakthrough with Alzheimer’s.
• YouTube Music gets new AI features.
• Firm scraps plan to give AI ‘workers’ rights after complaints it ‘disrespects the humanity of your real employees’.
• This HR company tried to treat AI bots like people — it didn’t go over well.
• App that said it would ‘use AI to weed out daters with STIs’ has been shut down.
• Elon Musk says his new AI chatbot has 'a little humour'.
• The world's funniest joke.
• Study claims AI is funnier than humans.
• "Scabby donkeys smell each other even when they are nine hills apart".
• Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation.
• 137 emergent abilities of large language models.
• GPT-4 System Card.
• Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode seven of "The AI Fix", Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet.

Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always write in Comic Sans, and Mark tells Graham why AIs are like dolphins that smoke pufferfish.

Episode links:

• Amazon Alexa Gone Wild!
• The AI Fix episode 2: Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with guns
• The AI Fix episode 5: An angry AI girlfriend, and artificial intelligence is stupid
• OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
• Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?
• Peloton faces lawsuit amid claims it allowed marketing firm to train AI on user chat data
• OpenAI secrets stolen last year, but company hushed it up
• Tesla delays reveal of its widely-anticipated Robotaxi until October
• The Washington Post launches AI chatbot that answers readers’ questions about the climate
• OpenAI whistleblowers claim staff NDAs force them to seek permission before contacting regulators
• $10m prize launched for team that can truly talk to the animals
• Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals?
• ESP: Earth Species Project
• Solving the cocktail-party problem
• Using AI to decode dog vocalizations
• A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
• Australian mayor readies world’s first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content
• ‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon
• Hallucination Leaderboard

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse.

Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells Graham how to lobotomise an AI that's obsessed with bridges.

Episode links:

• AI chatbots are as good as NY Times agony aunt.
• Meta banned from mining data for AI in Brazil.
• Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app.
• Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand.
• Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road.
• San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them.
• AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings.
• Amazon pulls the plug on its Astro for Business robot.
• Elderly internet scam victim accused of robbing Ohio bank with gun as a ‘remedy for her situation’.
• Lenny - The Telemarketing Troll.
• Microsoft scammer tells Lenny to shut up!
• Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers.
• Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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