In episode 54 of The AI Fix, Graham saves humanity with a CAPTCHA, Mark wonders whether AI can suffer, ChatGPT throws shade at Abba's Björn Ulvaeus, an AI called Jack ask if you want fries with that, an artist invents AI bird poop, and Eric Schmidt says we should unplug AI when it gets direct access to weapons.

Graham finds out what happens when a rag tag team of AIs is given 30 days to raise money for charity, and Mark explores model collapse and Claude Opus 4.0's weird obsession with a fictional factory-farmed chicken company.

Episode links:

• And the award goes to… The AI Fix!
• Super Trouper meets supercomputer: AI helping Abba star to write musical.
• Dum dum diddle.
• AI systems could become conscious. What if they hate their lives?
• Liverpool Biennial review – AI seagulls, gladiatorial football and big trouble in Chinatown.
• The AI Revolution Is Underhyped.
• 'So scary': Customer stunned by new AI assistant at Hungry Jack's.
• Agent Village.
• Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves.
• System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4.

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In episode 53 of The AI Fix, our hosts suspect the CEO of Duolingo has been kidnapped by an AI, Sergey Brin says AIs work better if you threaten them with physical violence, Graham wonders how you put a collar on a headless robot dog, Mark asks why kickboxing robots wear head guards, and the CEO of Anthropic says AI could wipe out entry-level jobs.

Graham asks your favourite AI how it feels about being kidnapped, and Mark explains how an AI tried to save itself by blackmailing the engineer responsible for turning it off.

Episode links:

• Duolingo CEO walks back AI memo.
• Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects.
• Humanoid robots fight in Chinese kick-boxing competition.
• Anthropic CEO warns AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs.
• ‘Dystopian’ video shows robot dog scaring real dog in NYC: ‘That thing is possessed’.
• Sam Altman: Tens of millions of dollars well spent--you never know.
• ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it.
• Sergey Brin: All AI models tend to do better if you threaten them.
• System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4.

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In episode 52 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a non-existent musical about garlic bread, Graham shares a summer reading list of books that don't exist, Mark feels nauseous after watching a video of Sam Altman and Jony Ive waffling about products that don't exist, some non-existent robots stack empty crates in a factory that doesn't exist, and OpenAI releases Codex, an AI agent destined to make your software engineering job not exist.

Graham reveals how an AI called "Thy" has ruined his childhood dream of becoming a late night radio DJ, and Mark looks at an experiment that showed groups of AI agents spontaneously create social norms—the building blocks of a society.

Episode links:

• Introducing Codex.
• Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist.
• Sam & Jony introduce io.
• Veo 3's big Broadway musical about garlic bread.
• First generation of humanoid workers in a factory, Shenzhen, China.
• Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents.
• Meet Thy – the radio host I don’t think exists.
• Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
• Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations.

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In episode 50 of The AI Fix, AI brings a slain man back from the dead so he can appear at his killer's trial, Mark gets a mysterious phone call, Trump uses AI to become Pope Donald the First, Zuck ponders the nature of friendship, Apple says the quiet part out loud, xAI springs a leak, and a philosophy professor says "so long weather forecasters!"

Graham explains why researchers in Oxford have made a digital twin of your grandmother, and Mark looks at the bizarre case of road rage victim Chris Pelkey.

Episode links:

• Trump posts AI image of himself as pope.
• Mark Zuckerberg made us lonelier. Now he wants us to be friends with AI.
• Google plunges as Apple hints at AI search for browsers.
• xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs.
• The people refusing to use AI.
• Can AI care for your loved ones?
• inTouch.
• I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered.
• AI version of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court.

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In episode 49 of The AI Fix, OpenAI kills off a sycophantic bot, our hosts are introduced to a prophetic Bosnian rock band, Meta puts an electric fence around its llamas, Mark reveals he's never tried covering a robot with olive oil, and Graham leaves a stern message for his great-great-grandchildren.

Mark sits a “smarty-pants” test, an AI becomes a crime boss, and Graham explains how a decades-old typo is poisoning the scientific well.

Episode links:

• Dubioza Kolektiv feat. Robby Megabyte - Take my Job Away.
• The AI Fix theme tune.
• Sharing new open source protection tools and advancements in AI privacy and security.
• AiMOGA Robots Selling Cars?
• How AI caught child abuser who fled to 'paradise'.
• The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course.
• Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it.
• A glitch in AI training data is plaguing scientific papers.
• Operating muli-client influence networks across platforms.

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In episode 48 of The AI Fix, OpenAI releases the first AI models capable of novel scientific discoveries, ChatGPT users are sick of its relentlessly positive tone, our hosts say "Alexa" a lot, OpenAI eyes a social network of its own, and some robots run a half-marathon.

Graham discovers AI Jesus and a great offer on some Casper mattresses, and Mark wonders if the technological singularity is actually much closer than we thought.

Episode links:

• Humanoid robots race humans in a half-marathon in Beijing.
• OpenAI introduces o3 and o4-mini.
• Cluely causes CEO to be suspended over AI cheating.
• Cluely promo video.
• Is OpenAI planning a social network?
• Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about its relentlessly positive tone.
• Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice.
• Jesus resurrected as an influencer who you can make video calls in real-time - thanks to AI.
• AI Jesus.
• Greg Brockman says o3 and o4-mini produce good and useful novel ideas.
• Eric Schmidt says programmers will be replaced by AI.

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In episode 47 of The AI Fix, o3 becomes the best competitive programmer in the world, hacked California crosswalks speak with the voice of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Meta introduces a herd of Llamas, Graham explains what a "lollipop lady" is, and Google talks to some dolphins.

Graham discovers an AI that's just a warehouse full of people, o3 becomes the best computer programmer in the world, and Mark wonders if software engineering will be the first job to fall to AI.

Episode links:

• People are utilizing ChatGPT to turn their dogs into humans.
• The cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are speaking from hacked crosswalks.
• DolphinGemma: Google AI model understands dolphin chatter.
• DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication.
• Meta introduces the Llama 4 “herd”.
• Tech CEO Charged In Artificial Intelligence Investment Fraud Scheme.
• Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines.
• Sarah Friar talks about A-SWE.

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