In episode 34 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch in horror as a vacuum cleaner sprouts a robotic arm and tiny little robot legs, a mind-reading helps a man chat up some French students, a robot dog runs as fast as Usain Bolt, and AI podcast hosts get impatient with their listeners. Meanwhile Graham isn’t tempted by NVIDIA’s $3000 supercomputer, and Mark explains his emergency manoeuvre for avoiding karaoke.

Graham shares a heartbreaking tale of a French woman’s encounter with someone who owns a copy of Photoshop, and Mark looks into AI's voracious appetite for jobs.

Episode links:

• The Black Panther 2 robot dog goes for a run.
• Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’.
• Omi launch video.
• Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘Personal AI Supercomputer’ Will Let You Ditch the Data Center.
• New Roborock Vacuum Has an Arm and Picked Up My Sock.
• Roborock's grabby new robot vacuum is a huge flex.
• Dreame X50 Ultra.
• Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT.
• Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans.
• AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830,000.
• Fake Brad Pitt Scammed 800K€, This Hacker Found Him.

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In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can't draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what social robots are, and both hosts watch horrified as somebody rips a robot's face off.

Graham explains why Elon Musk has invented an "unhinged" version of Grok and every Tesla will soon come fitted with a built-in racist uncle, and Mark looks into the disturbing phenomenon of "alignment faking".

Episode links:

• EngineAI robot walks in Shenzhen.
• EngineAI robot falls over.
• ChatGPT with a rifle.
• Aria and Melody, social robots.
• LA man trapped in a Waymo.
• Grok may soon get an ‘Unhinged Mode’.
• Elon Musk tweets how Grok will be less woke than ChatGPT.
• The definition of “woke”.
• Why Google's 'woke' AI problem won't be an easy fix.
• Alignment faking in large language models.
• OpenAI o1 System Card.

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In episode 32 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn the meaning of "poronkusema", Mark discovers his dream job, a school tries using AI instead of teachers, the "Godfather of AI" says AI will see us as toddlers, and Graham lifts the lid on the hidden threat of killer robot fridges.

Mark explains why 2025 is the year of the autonomous AI agent, and Graham investigates the robosexual revolution, and the claim that robots will be more popular than men in the bedroom this year.

Episode links:

• Episode 30: ChatGPT reveals the devastating truth about Santa (Merry Christmas!)
• The maker of Oreos cookies is using AI to create new snacks.
• Expert issues urgent call for regulations to stop AI being used for 'bad things'.
• British tabloid warns of the rise of killer robot fridges.
• Front page headline on the Daily Star.
• ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show.
• School uses AI instead of teachers to educate kids.
• Futurist Ian Pearson predicts sex with robots.
• The world’s first text message.
• Nigel Phwoorage and friends: Now you can get a sex doll of your favourite politician – and it’s the worst thing ever.
• I'm 34, a CEO and a great catch... and my girlfriend is an AI chatbot. My mother is desperate for me to marry but I may never date a 'real' woman again.

The AI Fix

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Graham and Mark are taking a break for the new year this week, but they'll be back for a new episode at the usual time next week.

In the meantime, here's another chance to hear one of their favourite episodes again. The very first episode of "The AI Fix" from April 2024...

Graham attempts to convince Mark that AI doesn't, in fact, exist. We aren't going to spoil it for you, but we can tell you that his theory starts in a bad hotel room in San Francisco, features some Wizard of Oz style sleight of hand by Amazon, and ends with ChatGPT refusing to supply some offensive terms for Gary Barlow.

Episode links:

• Introducing Amazon Go.
• How generative AI helps Amazon eliminate checkout lines and revolutionize the shopping experience.
• How Amazon's Big Bet on 'Just Walk Out' Stumbled.
• So, Amazon’s ‘AI-powered’ cashier-free shops use a lot of … humans. Here’s why that shouldn’t surprise you.

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In episode 30 of The AI Fix, AIs are caught lying to avoid being turned off, Apple’s AI flubs a headline, ChatGPT is available to people who haven't left the 1970s, our hosts regret to inform you that an AI artist now has a personality, and ant-like robots join forces to lob each other over things.

Graham discovers that Google Gemini is checking its homework by asking unskilled humans to simply take a punt at the right answer, and Mark uses an AI to reveal the devastating truth about Santa.

Episode links:

• Now you can call ChatGPT from your landline.
• New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying.
• Ant-like robots are joining forces to pick up heavy objects.
• Video: Swarming of high-aspect-ratio robot assemblies.
• The Dark Side Of AI: Tracking The Decline Of Human Cognitive Skills.
• Botto, the millionaire AI artist, is getting a personality.
• Journalists urge Apple to axe AI feature after false headline.
• Google’s Gemini is forcing contractors to rate AI responses outside their expertise.
• Gemini Man.
• NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law.
• iTutorGroup Sued for Age Discrimination.
• Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women.
• The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself.
• ChatGPT’s optimal delivery route for Santa Claus.

The AI Fix

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In episode 29 of The AI Fix, an AI company makes the bold step of urging us to "stop hiring humans", Graham is wrong about GB AI, parents prepare their kids for the imminent Moxie-mageddon, Google releases Gemini 2.0, and a robot is found dead at work and nobody knows why.

Graham inspects the AI Miss World competition for research purposes and wonders if our hosts should start an OnlyFans, and Mark meets an "evolving" AI that wants to be a billionaire.

Episode links:

• AI Firm’s ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ Billboard Campaign Sparks Outrage.
• Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit'.
• Google introduces Gemini 2.0: a new AI model for the agentic era.
• Moxie, the AI-powered robot companion, dies after company goes bankrupt.
• Russia teams up with BRICS to create AI alliance.
• A robot was found ‘dead’ at work – and no one knows why.
• Think You’re Messaging an OnlyFans Star? You’re Talking to These Guys.
• OnlyFans Models Are Using Al Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs.
• Influencers are using AI 'women' to lead people to OnlyFans and Fanvue — where more AI awaits.
• Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry.
• Meet the 'world's hottest model' catching the eye of famous footballers, MMA fighters and billionaires - but is all what it seems?
• Miss AI 2024.
• Kenza Layli.
• Viva Lalina.
• Freysa AI.

The AI Fix

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In episode 28 of The AI Fix, the new version of ChatGPT does a surprisingly good job of telling Mark how to defend himself from a flame thrower-wielding robot dog in his living room, Graham loses 30,000 robots on the head of a pin, our hosts meet a human washing machine from the fifties, and Dr Who finds a new way to get worse.

Graham wonders if teaching robot dogs to drop bombs is a good idea, and Mark meets ChatGPT's answer to Voldemort: David Mayer.

Episode links:

• 12 Days of OpenAI.
• Line up to hose down your filthy body with AI in the human ‘washing machine’.
• Human washing machine comes to Osaka for the first time in 50 years.
• DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system.
• Researchers have created the smallest walking robots yet.
• Doctor Who showrunners warn AI scripts will ‘eat their own tail’.
• AI Fix podcast host fooled by Tesla video that claimed to show robot catching ball.
• It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots.
• RoboPAIR - jailbreaking LLM-controlled robots.
• Unitree Go2.
• AI-powered robots can be tricked into acts of violence.
• Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why.

The AI Fix

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In episode 27 of The AI Fix, robots catch a ball, lead a revolt, and enjoy a juicy steak. Or do they? Graham struggles with a Micro USB cable, a student struggles with a school's anti-AI rules, and OpenAI's Sora video generation AI is leaked by hacktivists.

Graham circles back into an outside-the-box deep-dive where he synergises the low-hanging paradigm shift on a Zoom call with himself, and Mark wonders why we're suddenly awash with real-life Bond villains.

Episode links:

• Cooking With NEO Beta and Nick DiGiovanni.
• An AI robot named Erbai successfully orchestrated the exit of 12 larger robots from a showroom!
• Parents sue school after child given detention and poor grade for using AI.
• Introducing the Model Context Protocol.
• Tesla Optimus gets a new hand for Black Friday.
• ”DEAR CORPORATE AI OVERLORDS”.
• Ofcon’s Online Nation report.

The AI Fix

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