In episode 24 of The AI Fix, Mark makes an unforgivable error about the Terminator franchise, our hosts wonder if a "seductive" government chatbot will make it easier to talk about tax, a radio station abandons its three month AI experiment after a week, and OpenAI parks its tanks on Google’s lawn.

Graham gets cosmic and wonders why we aren’t surrounded by advanced alien AIs, our hosts argue about whether the moon landings or the invention of the cheese sandwich were more consequential events in human history, and Mark tells Graham that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner.

Episode links:

• AI chatbot launches on Gov.UK – with mixed results.
• Introducing ChatGPT search.
• Polish radio station abandons use of AI 'presenters' following outcry.
• Anthropic introduces “Computer use”, a way for its AI models to control computers.
• Organiser “highly embarrassed” after fake AI Halloween parade.
• AI Has Likely Spread Through Cosmos, Says Former NASA Chief Historian.
• If alien life is artificially intelligent, it may be stranger than we can imagine.
• Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It.
• The Intelligence Age by Sam Altman.
• Sam Altman talking about the next five years.
• Mustafa Suleyman talking about AGI.
• Eric Schmidt talking about AGI.

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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.



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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.

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In episode 21 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, and a multi-limbed robot with a passion for classical music.

Graham finds out what happens if you sellotape an Alexa to a Chihuahua, and Mark asks AI Trump and AI Harris how many Rs there are in "strawberry".

Episode links:

• Thermonator - the robot dog with a flamethrower.
• AI Smart Glasses Read Your Emotions and Watch What You Eat.
• Three-armed robot conductor makes debut in Dresden.
• Introducing Moflin - an AI-powered limbless guinea pig.
• Moflin promotional video.
• Google buys nuclear reactors to power AI data centres.
• Sotheby’s to auction painting of Alan Turing… painted by a robot.
• The inventor of the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to help us kill ourselves.
• Museum visitors to have AI chats with dodo.
• Shazam band.
• Shazam in action.
• I watched an AI collar make a dog talk, and it was unreal.
• This Talking Pet Collar Is Like a Chatbot for Your Dog.
• Elon Musk's tweet about Kamala Harris.
• Ask Trump and Harris Anything.
• Donald Trump voice.
• Kamala Harris voice.

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In episode 20 of The AI Fix, Mark asks an AI to make a very important decision, the Nobel academy finds a bandwagon, Graham gets a new nickname, a pair of robots prove that AI can't do humour, and our hosts find out why emotional support insects haven't taken off.

Graham introduces Mark to Optimus, the robot that can't be trusted to fold a t-shirt, and Mark introduces Graham to an AI Fix super fan.

Episode links:

• Nobel physics prize awarded to 'godfather of AI' who warned the technology could end humanity.
• AI robots get into quarrel.
• Google DeepMind scientists and biochemist win Nobel chemistry prize.
• Ring adds AI search to let you easily scan video footage - but with mixed results.
• One in 10 Americans turning to AI for emotional support.
• Elon Musk Posts Video of Optimus Robot, Gets Busted for Fakery.
• Tesla Optimus robot plays Rock Paper Scissors.
• Elon Musk unveils plan for 'Tesla Bot' with man dancing in a bodysuit.
• Elon Musk Announces "Optimus Robot".
• Robert Scoble interrogates Optimus robot.
• Elon Musk’s Beer-Pouring Optimus Robots Are Not Autonomous.
• Castmagic.

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In episode 19 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark discover some AI podcast hosts having an existential crisis, a robot dog climbs another step towards world domination, Mark makes a gift for anyone working in tech support, and William Shatner chews through Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Things can take a terrible turn when a pair of bored students think they're Ethan Hunt, and Mark thinks that an underwater IKEA might be the silver lining to the climate crisis.

Episode links:

• NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown.
• "Echoes of the ancients" by Łukasz Jakub Bonik.
• Robot dog climbs ladder.
• Microsoft redesigns Copilot with voice and vision.
• Google adds more AI to its search engine.
• San Francisco woman trapped in Waymo as idiots try to get her number.
• S.F. woman’s viral video shows her trapped in a Waymo by men asking for her number.
• Facebook, Instagram users outraged over AI training.
• Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by William Shatner.
• William Shatner is not dead (and neither are David Attenborough, Ian McKellen, Michael Caine, or Julie Andrews).
• I-XRAY.
• Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds.
• Coastal Risk Screening Tool.
• New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding.
• How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater.
• Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate.

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In episode 18 of The AI Fix our hosts discover that OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode is too emotional for Europeans, a listener writes a Viking saga about LinkedIn, ChatGPT is a terrible doctor, and the voice of Meta AI takes to Meta's platforms to complain about Meta AI reading things people post on Meta's platforms.

Mark discovers what Darth Vader really said on Cloud City, Graham rummages through ChatGPT's false memories, and our hosts find out why AIs need an inner critic.

Episode links:

• ChatGPT is awful at diagnosing medical conditions.
• OpenAI’s advanced voice mode is finally out…or is it?
• James McAvoy and Tom Brady fall for 'Goodbye Meta AI' hoax.
• Kristen Bell told Instagram to ‘get rid of AI’ before she became its official voice.
• Google has released two new versions of Gemini 1.5.
• "They stole my voice with AI."
• "The dark side of AI voice cloning (Elecrow responds)"
• OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once.
• False memory.
• Examples and explanation of the Mandela Effect.
• The Mandela Effect: How False Memories Trick Your Brain Into Believing.
• Lost in the mall technique.
• Memory and new controls for ChatGPT.
• Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity.
• Spyware Injection Into ChatGPT's Long-Term Memory.
• Microsoft claims its new tool can correct AI hallucinations, but experts advise caution.
• The End of AI Hallucinations: A Big Breakthrough in Accuracy for AI Application Developers.

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In episode 17 of The AI Fix, our hosts meet the worst newsreaders in the world, Graham learns about Big Trak and is shocked by a food delivery robot, Mark explains why he won't be dressing as a pirate, ChatGPT angelically removes a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR, and everyone thinks they've got Ebola.

Graham explains how his career in fashion came to an end, LinkedIn morphs into a feather-duster-wielding polyphase avatron with an insatiable appetite for B2B sales, and Mark delves into the intricate tapestry of terrible AI writing.

Episode links:

• Internet in a frenzy over AI purple apples.
• Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists.
• TGI Today AI-powered news report.
• Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules.
• Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize.
• 20% of doctors are using ChatGPT to treat patients.
• LinkedIn is training AI models on your data.
• Control whether LinkedIn uses your data to train generative AI models that are used for content creation on LinkedIn.
• ICO statement on changes to LinkedIn AI data policy.
• Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary.
• How Much Research Is Being Written by Large Language Models?

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In episode 16 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet GPT-4o1 and ask if it knows how many cousins Alice’s sister has, a top cop wants AI injected into his colleagues "like heroin", Mark finds an AI that might actually be able to help with that, and our hosts start a conspiracy theory about an AI that stops you believing in conspiracy theories.

Graham peers into his crystal ball and discover's Reddit's bargain basement John Connor, and Mark is tired of waiting for the "tens of millions" of driverless cars we were promised.

Episode links:

• Learning to Reason with LLMs.
• Traffic lights that prioritise cyclists over cars tested in UK.
• AI needs to be injected into police force ‘like heroin into bloodstream’, says leading officer.
• AI can change belief in conspiracy theories, study finds.
• Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes.
• Baba Vanga.
• Living Nostradamus' chilling prediction: AI will contact the dead.
• I'm a time traveler and the singularity is coming in 2 weeks.
• r/simpularity song.
• Waymo Safety.
• Dude, where’s my self-driving car?
• Self-driving taxi sparks discussions on challenges, limitations.
• How GM's Cruise robotaxi tech failures led it to drag pedestrian 20 feet.

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In episode 15 of The AI Fix, Graham learns there's one W in Mississippi, ChatGPT finds Mark's G-spot, nobody watches Megalopolis, Alexa is unmasked as a "commie operative", and our hosts learn that AI will soon need dedicated nuclear reactors.

Graham introduces Mark to a forlorn robot butler folding a shirt, and Mark explains why AI is like a highway of exploding bananas.

Episode links:

• US, UK, EU sign international AI treaty.
• AI blamed for the fake quotes in movie trailer.
• Are AI-created recipes hard to swallow?
• Republican voters less confident than Democrats in spotting AI deepfakes, poll shows.
• Nvidia is suddenly in trouble.
• Alexa ‘gives users reasons to vote for Harris and not Trump’.
• "Alexa is a commie operative..."
• 1X AI Eve robots tidy office.
• 1X AI Eve robots perform household chores.
• Introducing NEO Beta.
• GPT4- All Details Leaked.
• As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires.

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In episode 14 of The AI Fix, Graham makes an apology, Mark wonders if suicide drones have second thoughts, people pretend to be robots, and some researchers prove that all you need for an AI to generate a somewhat usable version of the computer game Doom out of thin air is to already have a fully-working copy of the computer game Doom.

Graham learns how to escape from a police sniffer elephant, an AI-generates a smell with no odour, and Mark explains why the world's best LLMs think there are two Rs in "strawberry".

Episode links:

• Women will be having more sex with robots than men by 2025.
• The Vatican wants a moratorium on killer robots.
• Kim Jong Un inspects new ‘suicide drones,’ urges incorporation of AI.
• OpenAI in talks for funding round valuing it above $100 Billion.
• Women are less interested in AI than men.
• New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time.
• GameNGen playing Doom.
• Chinese robot conference spotlights changing face of humanoids.
• Humanoids (robots or otherwise) perform at World Robot Conference.
• Led by a former Google researcher, this company wants to give computers a sense of smell.
• Computers are learning to smell.
• OpenAI Tokenizer.
• Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date.
• The Problems with Tokenization in LLMs.

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