Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google's festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics.

Your hosts unwrap a festive grab-bag of AI absurdity as Waymo self-driving taxis run over a beloved San Francisco cat, then stage several fresh PR disasters by refusing to cross bridges, block holiday parades, and apparently chauffeur a man hiding in the trunk.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot struggles to find anyone who actually wants to use it, while new research suggests the programmers of the future won’t need coding skills at all - just the ability to psychologically profile an AI.

Episode links:

• How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See.
• Quantifying Human-AI synergy.
• Excruciating moment three self-driving taxis clog up street and stop moving after getting into AI standoff.
• Confused Waymo robotaxi snarls traffic at popular LA festival after it panics and stalls.
• Waymo gets stuck during boat parade.
• I ordered a Waymo for my daughter and a random was in the trunk. 
• Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot.
• New AI Tells Children That Santa Isn’t Real.
• Meet AI Santa.

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