In episode 19 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark discover some AI podcast hosts having an existential crisis, a robot dog climbs another step towards world domination, Mark makes a gift for anyone working in tech support, and William Shatner chews through Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Things can take a terrible turn when a pair of bored students think they're Ethan Hunt, and Mark thinks that an underwater IKEA might be the silver lining to the climate crisis.

Episode links:

• NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown.
• "Echoes of the ancients" by Łukasz Jakub Bonik.
• Robot dog climbs ladder.
• Microsoft redesigns Copilot with voice and vision.
• Google adds more AI to its search engine.
• San Francisco woman trapped in Waymo as idiots try to get her number.
• S.F. woman’s viral video shows her trapped in a Waymo by men asking for her number.
• Facebook, Instagram users outraged over AI training.
• Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by William Shatner.
• William Shatner is not dead (and neither are David Attenborough, Ian McKellen, Michael Caine, or Julie Andrews).
• I-XRAY.
• Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds.
• Coastal Risk Screening Tool.
• New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding.
• How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater.
• Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate.

The AI Fix

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