In episode 37 of The AI Fix, Google Gemini gets the munchies, the wettest country in the world can’t find any water, an escalator tries to eat Graham, o3-mini can’t rub two sticks together, and OpenAI invents an AI that can do “a single-digit percentage of all economically valuable tasks in the world” but nobody notices.
Graham wonders why his childhood was full of Triffids and quicksand, and discovers a way to trap overstepping AI crawlers in an endless maze, while Mark investigates the appalling state of DeepSeek security.
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In episode 36 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark take a long look at DeepSeek, an upstart AI out of China that was trained on a shoestring, shook up Wall Street, kneecapped Nvidia, and challenged America's AI hegemony.
Graham also discovers a remarkably f***ing effective way to remove AI snippets, a personal mobility robot gets a bit over-excited, some aliens regret installing an FTP server, and Mark explains what o3-mini owes to Spinal Tap.
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In episode 35 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn who the 175th best programmer in the world is, the AI supervillains put on suits for President Trump, a "not imaginary" AI turns out to be imaginary, OpenAI releases Operator and teases o3-mini, and Anthropic predicts that superintelligence is only three years away.
Graham considers giving his money, pets, and vital organs to a YouTuber with an AI, and Mark looks into Project Stargate and the geo-politics of AI.
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In episode 34 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch in horror as a vacuum cleaner sprouts a robotic arm and tiny little robot legs, a mind-reading helps a man chat up some French students, a robot dog runs as fast as Usain Bolt, and AI podcast hosts get impatient with their listeners. Meanwhile Graham isn’t tempted by NVIDIA’s $3000 supercomputer, and Mark explains his emergency manoeuvre for avoiding karaoke.
Graham shares a heartbreaking tale of a French woman’s encounter with someone who owns a copy of Photoshop, and Mark looks into AI's voracious appetite for jobs.
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In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can't draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what social robots are, and both hosts watch horrified as somebody rips a robot's face off.
Graham explains why Elon Musk has invented an "unhinged" version of Grok and every Tesla will soon come fitted with a built-in racist uncle, and Mark looks into the disturbing phenomenon of "alignment faking".
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