The AI Fix

In episode ten of The AI Fix, Graham attempts to say "quinoa", Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying trailer for a creepy new AI friend.

Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey mess, and learns an unusual trick for making a great mojito, while Mark pits his co-host against the cleverest AI brains in the world.

Episode links:

• OpenAI starts rollout of Advanced Voice Mode.
• UK Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans.
• Friend trailer.
• Artificial intelligence has hard time with accents.
• Netherlands court uses ChatGPT to decide things.
• Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights.
• Twitter thread on crockpot cookbook.
• Get ready for AI to rip off your favorite cookbooks.
• ‘One of the most disgusting meals I’ve ever eaten’: AI recipes tested.
• This cookbook author was a best-seller on Amazon — but she may not even be human.
• ARC Prize.
• ARC Prize leaderboard.
• On the Measure of Intelligence research paper by François Chollet.

The AI Fix

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In episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch...

Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence.

Episode links:

• Meta launches Llama 3.1.
• OpenAI Unveils Cheaper, Small AI Model GPT-4o Mini.
• SearchGPT: OpenAI’s Prototype Aims to Challenge Google.
• Video Game Performers Strike Over AI.
• Nicolas Cage is ‘terrified’ of AI using his body and face when he’s dead.
• Dilbert Creator Claims He Taught ChatGPT Dangerous Hypnosis Techniques.
• Adult Content Creators Are Making SIX-Figure Salaries from Men Falling in Love with Subservient ‘AI Girlfriends’.
• Japanese AI Dating App Lets You ‘Marry’ a Bot.
• GB News Radio to Introduce AI-Generated News Bulletins.
• AI-powered vending machines are selling bullets.
• How Easy Is It To Purchase Ammo with AI-Powered Retail Vending Machines?
• Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers.
• AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway.
• OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward ‘Human-Level’ Problem Solving.

The AI Fix

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In episode eight of "The AI Fix", our hosts tackle the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence and learn about two important medical breakthroughs, Mark coughs, Graham ruins "Killing me softly", and neither shows their junk to an AI.

Graham explains humour to Mark and shares a donkey story he learned from a Bulgarian, ChatGPT reveals the funniest joke in the world, and Mark explains why AI's greatest talents can sometimes appear from thin air...

Episode links:

• Cambridge University researchers say their AI tool may have made a breakthrough with Alzheimer’s.
• YouTube Music gets new AI features.
• Firm scraps plan to give AI ‘workers’ rights after complaints it ‘disrespects the humanity of your real employees’.
• This HR company tried to treat AI bots like people — it didn’t go over well.
• App that said it would ‘use AI to weed out daters with STIs’ has been shut down.
• Elon Musk says his new AI chatbot has 'a little humour'.
• The world's funniest joke.
• Study claims AI is funnier than humans.
• "Scabby donkeys smell each other even when they are nine hills apart".
• Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation.
• 137 emergent abilities of large language models.
• GPT-4 System Card.
• Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

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In episode seven of "The AI Fix", Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet.

Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always write in Comic Sans, and Mark tells Graham why AIs are like dolphins that smoke pufferfish.

Episode links:

• Amazon Alexa Gone Wild!
• The AI Fix episode 2: Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with guns
• The AI Fix episode 5: An angry AI girlfriend, and artificial intelligence is stupid
• OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
• Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?
• Peloton faces lawsuit amid claims it allowed marketing firm to train AI on user chat data
• OpenAI secrets stolen last year, but company hushed it up
• Tesla delays reveal of its widely-anticipated Robotaxi until October
• The Washington Post launches AI chatbot that answers readers’ questions about the climate
• OpenAI whistleblowers claim staff NDAs force them to seek permission before contacting regulators
• $10m prize launched for team that can truly talk to the animals
• Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals?
• ESP: Earth Species Project
• Solving the cocktail-party problem
• Using AI to decode dog vocalizations
• A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
• Australian mayor readies world’s first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content
• ‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon
• Hallucination Leaderboard

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In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse.

Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells Graham how to lobotomise an AI that's obsessed with bridges.

Episode links:

• AI chatbots are as good as NY Times agony aunt.
• Meta banned from mining data for AI in Brazil.
• Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app.
• Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand.
• Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road.
• San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them.
• AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings.
• Amazon pulls the plug on its Astro for Business robot.
• Elderly internet scam victim accused of robbing Ohio bank with gun as a ‘remedy for her situation’.
• Lenny - The Telemarketing Troll.
• Microsoft scammer tells Lenny to shut up!
• Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers.
• Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model.

The AI Fix

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In episode five of The AI Fix, we discover that if you can answer this question, you're smarter than 99% of AIs:

"Alice has 4 brothers, and she also has 1 sister. How many sisters do Alice’s brothers have?"

Find out why AI is stupid, what Toys "R" Us has done that's even more annoying than putting that "R" in its name, why Graham Cluley has an angry AI girlfriend, and much much more in episode five of "The AI Fix" podcast.

Episode links:

• Exam submissions by AI found to earn higher grades than real-life students.
• After being crowned the world’s most valuable company last week, Nvidia loses close to $550 billion.
• A Russian Propaganda Network Is Promoting an AI-Manipulated Biden Video.
• AI chatbot caught lying on robocalls — telling users that it’s human.
• New research could make AI cheaper to run and more environmentally friendly.
• Bill Gates says Al will accelerate innovation and make it easier to combat climate change.
• Surprise Surprise, OpenAI has delayed GPT-4o’s Voice Mode.
• Mark Zuckerberg says closed-source AI competitors are trying to ‘create God’.
• Toys "R" Us video.
• Toys "R" Us has riled people up with a “first-ever” AI-generated commercial using Sora.
• Samsung's You and AI. As One video.
• AI technology could reduce household arguments by managing chores, expert suggests.
• What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You?
• The Turing Test, 1950.
• Computer AI passes Turing test in 'world first'.
• I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test. Here’s What I Discovered.
• GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam: What That Means for Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Legal Profession.
• Can GPT models be Financial Analysts? An Evaluation of ChatGPT and GPT-4 on mock CFA Exams.
• Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-Assisted Medical Education Using Large Language Models.
• The Alice In Wonderland (AIW) problem.

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In episode four of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark learn there's a 99.9% chance that AI will wipe out humans within 100 years, examine the even more chilling prospect of Barney the dinosaur reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to six-year-olds, and resurrect a tried-and-trusted software evaluation method to decide if Claude 3.5 Sonnet is better than ChatGPT-4o.

Graham overshares on the subject of Meg Ryan while talking about a pill-sized medical robot, and Mark explains why humanity's future might feel a bit like being Steve Wozniak's pet.

Episode links:

• TikTok’s AI tool lets you put Hitler’s words in a paid actor’s mouth.
• Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
• Premiere of First Movie Written by AI Is Axed After Backlash.
• Universal Music signs deal to train "ultra-high fidelity vocal models" of its artists.
• Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company.
• Researcher Estimates 99.9 Percent Chance AI Will Destroy Humankind.
• The Roddenberry Foundation has offered a million-dollar prize to develop AI that's 'used for good'.
• OpenAI CTO says AI could kill some creative jobs that “Maybe shouldn't exist anyway”.
• Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says.
• Fantastic Voyage trailer.
• Swallow this robot: Endiatx’s tiny pill examines your body with cameras, sensors.
• Endiatx CEO swallows PillBot.
• 77-sec Physician-narrated PillBot Exam.
• Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind.
• Elon Musk warns A.I. could create an ‘immortal dictator from which we can never escape’.
• Robots will make us into their pets, warns Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

The AI Fix

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In this week's episode of The AI Fix podcast, Graham and Mark tackle the latest news from the world of AI and discover an unusual way to stop Joe Biden deepfakes, ponder the implications of ChatGPT going down, and discuss the danger of Daleks armed with venti lattes.

Graham tells Mark why he and superstar Tom Cruise are boycotting the Olympics, and Mark discovers an unexpected way to decide if AI is cleverer than humans.

Episode links:

• OpenAI Says ChatGPT Suffering Major Outage.
• AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says.
• Unique Starbucks only at NAVER 1784: with 100 Robots.
• US cites AI deepfakes as reason to keep Biden recording with Robert Hur secret.
• The CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings.
• OpenAI has stopped five attempts to misuse its AI for 'deceptive activity'.
• AI and Covert Influence Operations: Latest Trends.
• Russia targets Paris Olympics with deepfake Tom Cruise video.
• Position: Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI.

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In the latest episode of The AI Fix podcast, Graham and Mark tackle the latest news from the world of AI, ponder the grisly demise of OpenAI's safety team, ask what the GPT-4o reveal will mean for Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, and question whether fitting guns to robots dogs is just wokeism gone mad.

Graham explains to Mark why Mustard might help AI to understand teenagers better, both hosts pretend to be northerners, and Mark introduces Graham to ChatGPT's evil alter-ego DAN.

Episode links:

• Open AI unveils GPT-4o.
• Google’s AI Overviews roll out to users in the USA.
• Luke Jordan describes how his website was destroyed by Google.
• Artificial intelligence is hitting jobs like a "tsunami".
• Too busy to find love? An 'AI dating concierge' could date hundreds of people on your behalf.
• Robot dogs with guns.
• OpenAI dissolves AI safety team.
• Tweet by Jan Leike.
• Researchers build AI-driven sarcasm detector.
• DAN is my new friend.
• Chat GPT "DAN" (and other "Jailbreaks").
• Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models.
• AutoDAN: Interpretable Gradient-Based Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models.
• ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs.

The AI Fix

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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.

The AI Fix

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