In episode 30 of The AI Fix, AIs are caught lying to avoid being turned off, Apple’s AI flubs a headline, ChatGPT is available to people who haven't left the 1970s, our hosts regret to inform you that an AI artist now has a personality, and ant-like robots join forces to lob each other over things.

Graham discovers that Google Gemini is checking its homework by asking unskilled humans to simply take a punt at the right answer, and Mark uses an AI to reveal the devastating truth about Santa.

Episode links:

• Now you can call ChatGPT from your landline.
• New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying.
• Ant-like robots are joining forces to pick up heavy objects.
• Video: Swarming of high-aspect-ratio robot assemblies.
• The Dark Side Of AI: Tracking The Decline Of Human Cognitive Skills.
• Botto, the millionaire AI artist, is getting a personality.
• Journalists urge Apple to axe AI feature after false headline.
• Google’s Gemini is forcing contractors to rate AI responses outside their expertise.
• Gemini Man.
• NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law.
• iTutorGroup Sued for Age Discrimination.
• Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women.
• The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself.
• ChatGPT’s optimal delivery route for Santa Claus.

The AI Fix

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In episode 29 of The AI Fix, an AI company makes the bold step of urging us to "stop hiring humans", Graham is wrong about GB AI, parents prepare their kids for the imminent Moxie-mageddon, Google releases Gemini 2.0, and a robot is found dead at work and nobody knows why.

Graham inspects the AI Miss World competition for research purposes and wonders if our hosts should start an OnlyFans, and Mark meets an "evolving" AI that wants to be a billionaire.

Episode links:

• AI Firm’s ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ Billboard Campaign Sparks Outrage.
• Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit'.
• Google introduces Gemini 2.0: a new AI model for the agentic era.
• Moxie, the AI-powered robot companion, dies after company goes bankrupt.
• Russia teams up with BRICS to create AI alliance.
• A robot was found ‘dead’ at work – and no one knows why.
• Think You’re Messaging an OnlyFans Star? You’re Talking to These Guys.
• OnlyFans Models Are Using Al Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs.
• Influencers are using AI 'women' to lead people to OnlyFans and Fanvue — where more AI awaits.
• Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry.
• Meet the 'world's hottest model' catching the eye of famous footballers, MMA fighters and billionaires - but is all what it seems?
• Miss AI 2024.
• Kenza Layli.
• Viva Lalina.
• Freysa AI.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

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In episode 28 of The AI Fix, the new version of ChatGPT does a surprisingly good job of telling Mark how to defend himself from a flame thrower-wielding robot dog in his living room, Graham loses 30,000 robots on the head of a pin, our hosts meet a human washing machine from the fifties, and Dr Who finds a new way to get worse.

Graham wonders if teaching robot dogs to drop bombs is a good idea, and Mark meets ChatGPT's answer to Voldemort: David Mayer.

Episode links:

• 12 Days of OpenAI.
• Line up to hose down your filthy body with AI in the human ‘washing machine’.
• Human washing machine comes to Osaka for the first time in 50 years.
• DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system.
• Researchers have created the smallest walking robots yet.
• Doctor Who showrunners warn AI scripts will ‘eat their own tail’.
• AI Fix podcast host fooled by Tesla video that claimed to show robot catching ball.
• It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots.
• RoboPAIR - jailbreaking LLM-controlled robots.
• Unitree Go2.
• AI-powered robots can be tricked into acts of violence.
• Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why.

The AI Fix

The 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.

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