Excel Copilot will wreck your data, and can AI fix social media?
In episode 65 of The AI Fix, a pigeon gives a PowerPoint presentation, Mark plays Graham a song about the Transformer architecture, a robot dog delivers parcels, some robots fall over at the World Humanoid Robot Games, and Graham takes credit for one of computing’s greatest insights.Plus, Graham explains why Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Excel’s new Copilot feature in any spreadsheet calculations that are meant to be useful, accurate, reproducible, or relied on for anything important, and Mark discovers what happened when researchers gave 500 AIs their own social network.Episode links:Bursting the Cloud.Don’t call it ‘the cloud’. Call it ‘someone else’s computer’.Ethan Mollick’s version of Attention Is All You Need.World Humanoid Robot Games opening ceremony.Robotics Relay Race Turns into an Unexpected Comedy.AI has created a new breed of cat video.He lost everything… but built a life more than he ever dreamed.Evri deploys first robot delivery dogs.How a Misplaced Decimal Point Nearly Took Down Spain’s Newest Submarines.Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel.COPILOT Function.Can We Fix Social Media?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!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the "Rumble in the Silicon Jungle"
In episode 64 of The AI Fix, AI discovers new physics, a robot crab looks for love on the beaches of Portugal, the “Godfather of AI” thinks our only hope is to build motherly AI, a robot folds some laundry, the UK government has a terrible idea, and our hosts discover a long lost sixties soul hit, "Dusty Plasma".Plus, Graham digs into the spat between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, and Mark learns that humanity could be saved by vaccinating AI against evil.Episode links:Delete your old emails, says UK government.National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall.The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI.Another robot has started folding laundry.Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control.Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.Robocrab humiliated in mudflat love triangle.Tweet by Elon Musk, claiming OpenAI is being given preferential treatment in the Apple App Store.Elon Musk asks ChatGPT a question.Sam Altman enters the fray.Grok decides if Sam Altman or Elon Musk is right.Persona vectors.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!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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GPT-5 is the best AI ever, and Jim Acosta interviews a murdered teenager's avatar
In episode 63 of The AI Fix, Unitree Robotics looks to Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” for tips on marketing its new robot dog, ChatGPT is secretly running Sweden, OpenAI introduces its first open weight model since GPT-2, and your private and personal ChatGPT conversations could be all over Google.Plus, Mark cuts through the GPT-5 hype and asks—is it AGI or just a fancy purple background, and Graham looks at “deadbots” and a disturbing interview between Jim Acosta and an AI version of a teenager killed in a school shooting.Episode links:Unitree A2 Stellar Hunter smashes through window.Black Mirror Metal Head.MP becomes first to create himself as an AI bot.Speak to AI Mark Sewards MP.‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in roleOpenAI introduces gpt-oss.Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.Tweet by OpenAI CISO Dane StuckeyBruce Lee movie uses cardboard cut-out of his face.China's SenseTime Shocks Staff as Deceased Founder Shows Up for a Speech.Jim Acosta interviews AI avatar of school shooting Joaquin Oliver.I made an AI clone of my dead son - and let a journalist interview him.“An AR-15 stole Joaquin’s life, not artificial intelligence.”Death Star tweet by Sam Altman.Introducing GPT-5 (article).Introducing GPT-5 (video).GPT-5 “Chart crimes”.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!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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AI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the face
In episode 62 of The AI Fix, your hosts learn how AI models smash through CAPTCHA roadblocks like they're made of wet tissue paper - so much for humanity’s last line of defence. Meanwhile, we meet a bottle-flipping robot and call BS on a cartwheeling cyborg, Graham has a full-blown breakdown over traffic light puzzles, and Anthropic hires an AI psychiatry team to figure out why its bots are unhinged.Also: Microsoft helpfully tells us which jobs are toast, Vogue replaces models with AI-generated glam-bots, and a tiny homebrew neural net humiliates the big boys at Sudoku.Plus, Mark explores GEPA — the AI prompt optimiser that politely mutates your questions until they’re 35 times more effective than reinforcement learning. Episode links:AI model appears in Vogue.Humanoid robot can run, cartwheel and fist-fight.Nuclear waste cleaning humanoid robot nails 500 ml bottle throw test.500ml Water Bottle Throw Test with ARMstrong Dex.Tweet by Jack Lindsey of Anthrophic.Anthrophic’s "AI psychiatry" team.Microsoft reveals the top ten jobs most (and least!) at risk from AI.This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT.Bias alert: LLMs suggest women seek lower salaries than men in job interviews.AI researcher ‘turns down $1bn pay offer from Mark Zuckerberg’.Agent casually clicking the "I am not a robot" button.OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test.GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning.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!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Replit panics, deletes $1M project; AI gets gold at Math Olympiad
In episode 61 of The AI Fix, a robot called DeREK goes bananas, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic warn we may lose the ability to see what AI is thinking, a dextrous robot changes its own batteries, the USA unveils its AI action plan, and a human beats AI to win the World Coding Championship.Also in this week's episode, Graham reveals why you should never ask a vibe coding app to "clean up" your project, and Mark explains why it was handbags at dawn at the International Mathematical Olympiad.Episode links:OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’.Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety.Experimental fighting robot thrashing uncontrollably.Elon says that in future we’ll be able to “mentally remote” into an Optimus robot.Walker S2 – The world’s first humanoid robot capable of operating autonomously 24/7.Human programmer beats OpenAI’s custom AI in 10‑hour marathon, wins World Coding Championship—possibly the last human winner.AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database.Replit CEO: What really happened when AI agent wiped Jason Lemkin’s database.Jason Lemkin “Vibe coding day 8”.Alexander Wei announces IMO gold medal.Sam Altman weighs in.Thang Long announces IMO gold medal.Demis Hassabis weighs in.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.Privacy & 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…Winner of Best New Podcast 2025.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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