In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids' homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other's minds.

Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are better than two; Mark discovers a well known prompting technique doesn't work unless you want to make your AI dumber; Network Rail delays 32 trains because of an AI photo of a wonky bridge; and our hosts ponder the explosion of progress on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark.

Episode links:

• Network Rail fooled by AI-generated image of bridge damage.
• ARC Prize benchmark.
• Midea's six-armed Miro U robot unveiled.
• Midea Miro U robot video.
• Expert personas don't improve factual accuracy study.
• Valley Leadership Academy remote teaching in Lancashire.
• Deepfake teachers in UK schools trial.
• Xiao An robot teacher in China classrooms.
• Robot Wendy helps student return to classroom.

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