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.

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In episode 18 of The AI Fix our hosts discover that OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode is too emotional for Europeans, a listener writes a Viking saga about LinkedIn, ChatGPT is a terrible doctor, and the voice of Meta AI takes to Meta's platforms to complain about Meta AI reading things people post on Meta's platforms.

Mark discovers what Darth Vader really said on Cloud City, Graham rummages through ChatGPT's false memories, and our hosts find out why AIs need an inner critic.

Episode links:

• ChatGPT is awful at diagnosing medical conditions.
• OpenAI’s advanced voice mode is finally out…or is it?
• James McAvoy and Tom Brady fall for 'Goodbye Meta AI' hoax.
• Kristen Bell told Instagram to ‘get rid of AI’ before she became its official voice.
• Google has released two new versions of Gemini 1.5.
• "They stole my voice with AI."
• "The dark side of AI voice cloning (Elecrow responds)"
• OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once.
• False memory.
• Examples and explanation of the Mandela Effect.
• The Mandela Effect: How False Memories Trick Your Brain Into Believing.
• Lost in the mall technique.
• Memory and new controls for ChatGPT.
• Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity.
• Spyware Injection Into ChatGPT's Long-Term Memory.
• Microsoft claims its new tool can correct AI hallucinations, but experts advise caution.
• The End of AI Hallucinations: A Big Breakthrough in Accuracy for AI Application Developers.

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In episode 17 of The AI Fix, our hosts meet the worst newsreaders in the world, Graham learns about Big Trak and is shocked by a food delivery robot, Mark explains why he won't be dressing as a pirate, ChatGPT angelically removes a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR, and everyone thinks they've got Ebola.

Graham explains how his career in fashion came to an end, LinkedIn morphs into a feather-duster-wielding polyphase avatron with an insatiable appetite for B2B sales, and Mark delves into the intricate tapestry of terrible AI writing.

Episode links:

• Internet in a frenzy over AI purple apples.
• Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists.
• TGI Today AI-powered news report.
• Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules.
• Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize.
• 20% of doctors are using ChatGPT to treat patients.
• LinkedIn is training AI models on your data.
• Control whether LinkedIn uses your data to train generative AI models that are used for content creation on LinkedIn.
• ICO statement on changes to LinkedIn AI data policy.
• Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary.
• How Much Research Is Being Written by Large Language Models?

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In episode 15 of The AI Fix, Graham learns there's one W in Mississippi, ChatGPT finds Mark's G-spot, nobody watches Megalopolis, Alexa is unmasked as a "commie operative", and our hosts learn that AI will soon need dedicated nuclear reactors.

Graham introduces Mark to a forlorn robot butler folding a shirt, and Mark explains why AI is like a highway of exploding bananas.

Episode links:

• US, UK, EU sign international AI treaty.
• AI blamed for the fake quotes in movie trailer.
• Are AI-created recipes hard to swallow?
• Republican voters less confident than Democrats in spotting AI deepfakes, poll shows.
• Nvidia is suddenly in trouble.
• Alexa ‘gives users reasons to vote for Harris and not Trump’.
• "Alexa is a commie operative..."
• 1X AI Eve robots tidy office.
• 1X AI Eve robots perform household chores.
• Introducing NEO Beta.
• GPT4- All Details Leaked.
• As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires.

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In episode 14 of The AI Fix, Graham makes an apology, Mark wonders if suicide drones have second thoughts, people pretend to be robots, and some researchers prove that all you need for an AI to generate a somewhat usable version of the computer game Doom out of thin air is to already have a fully-working copy of the computer game Doom.

Graham learns how to escape from a police sniffer elephant, an AI-generates a smell with no odour, and Mark explains why the world's best LLMs think there are two Rs in "strawberry".

Episode links:

• Women will be having more sex with robots than men by 2025.
• The Vatican wants a moratorium on killer robots.
• Kim Jong Un inspects new ‘suicide drones,’ urges incorporation of AI.
• OpenAI in talks for funding round valuing it above $100 Billion.
• Women are less interested in AI than men.
• New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time.
• GameNGen playing Doom.
• Chinese robot conference spotlights changing face of humanoids.
• Humanoids (robots or otherwise) perform at World Robot Conference.
• Led by a former Google researcher, this company wants to give computers a sense of smell.
• Computers are learning to smell.
• OpenAI Tokenizer.
• Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date.
• The Problems with Tokenization in LLMs.

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In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on "do no evil", and our hosts feel like David Attenborough as they witness herds of Waymo robotaxis honking their late-night mating calls at each other.

Our hosts discover why it's OK to make AIs out of human brains, Mark takes Graham on an emotional roller coaster through the AI afterlife, and Graham comes last in a "who's the best Graham on the podcast?" competition.

Episode links:

• Elon Musk’s ‘fun’ AI image chatbot serves up Nazi Mickey Mouse and Taylor Swift deepfakes.
• Aspect - an AI social media app.
• Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’.
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Stanford Talk Gets Awkwardly Live-Streamed: Here’s the Juicy Takeaways.
• Meet Hermes, the new frontier model having an existential crisis.
• English ChatGPT users flummoxed by language glitch as bot turns Welsh.
• San Francisco neighbors say repeated Waymo honking is keeping them up at night.
• These 'living computers' are made from human neurons — and you can rent one for $500 a month.
• FinalSpark live stream.
• The Jessica Simulation: Love and loss in the age of A.I.
• Virtual reality "reunites" mother with dead daughter in South Korean documentary.
• Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted ‘hauntings’ by AI chatbots of dead loved ones.

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