In episode 58 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a pair of AI headphones that don't electrocute you, Microsoft invents "medical superintelligence", Chucky opens a hotel, some robot footballers fall over, Jony Ive invents a $6 billion pen, and Malcolm Gladwell fears a dystopian future full of children playing joyfully in the street.

Graham discovers that the number 27 holds a special place in the heart of every AI, and Mark investigates Anthropic’s terrible AI shopkeeper.

Episode links:

• Neurable headphones.
• Pitiful Chinese ‘footie robots’ stumble through match in hilarious scenes.
• The path to medical superintelligence.
• Robots replace hotel check-in staff.
• Malcolm Gladwell says driverless cars don’t work in cities.
• Jony Ive’s First AI Gadget? Clues Point to a Pen.
• LLMs and the Illusion of Randomness: Their obsession with number 27.
• How do lava lamps help with Internet encryption?
• “How to HACK the lottery” keynote speech by Graham Cluley.
• Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop?

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