AI adopts its own social norms, and AI DJ creates diversity scandal
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.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Divorce by coffee grounds, and why AI robots need your brain
In episode 51 of The AI Fix, a Greek man's marriage is destroyed after ChatGPT reads his coffee, a woman dumps her husband to marry an AI called Leo, and Graham wonders whether it's time to upload his brain into a lunchbox-packing robot.Meanwhile, a humanoid robot goes full Michael Crawford in a Chinese factory, the UK government launches an AI to read angry public consultations, and Mark dreams of a world where robots finally have common sense - and swear like sailors.Plus Graham uncovers how AI is wrecking relationships and inventing soulmates, and Mark explains why Google's Gemini-powered bots might be smarter, more dexterous, and more emotionally stable than most of your exes.Episode links:The AI Fix Plus! Support the show and get ad-free episodes!Trump administration rescinds curbs on AI chip exports to foreign markets.AI job interviewer obsessed with vertical bar pilates.AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms.Factory worker attacked after humanoid robot goes bananas.UK government to launch AI tool to speed up public consultations.Researchers explore if people would like their robots to say “f***”.Greek Woman Files for Divorce After ChatGPT “Reads” Husband’s Affair in Coffee Cup.I left my husband after falling in love with ChatGPT... my AI partner satisfies me in a way my ex never did.Veterinarian reveals shocking number of times you should REALLY be walking your dog each day.Robot romance: I divorced my husband after falling madly in love with ChatGPT – even my sex life is better with my AI beauAt 1,500 stories per day, Mail Online is UK’s most prolific news website.How we built the new family of Gemini Robotics models.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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AI brings dead man back for killer’s trial, and the judge loves it
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.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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The typo from hell
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.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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AI Jesus, and is the AI Singularity almost upon us?
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.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Join tech veterans Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley as they dive headfirst into the hilarious, bizarre, and downright mind-boggling world of artificial intelligence, looking into deepfakes, machine learning, and whether it’s too late to make peace with our robot overlords. It’s not your typical AI podcast… https://theaifix.showSupport the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus at https://theaifix.show/plus
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