AI can read minds now, and is your co-host a clone?
In episode 46 of The AI Fix, China trolls US tariffs, a microscopic pogoing flea-bot makes a tiny leap forward for robotics, Google unveils the Agent2Agent protocol, a robot dog is so cute it ruins Graham's entire day, and Europe commits €20 billion and all of its buzzwords to five moonshot AI gigafactories.Graham brings his clone to work for a game of “Cluley or Cloney”, and Mark introduces Graham to a mind-reading technology that could transform the lives of people with serious neurological disorders.Episode links:Loona - the intelligent Petbot.Robots have learnt to hop to a height of 20 cm.Tiny hopping robots.Google announces A2A, the Agent2Agent Protocol.Donald Trump’s education secretary talks about “A1”.Linda McMahon speaks at 2025 ASU+GSV Summit.China mocks Trump’s tariffs with AI video of US sweatshop workers: ‘Make America Great Again’.AI murder predictor catches killers before they strike.UK: Ministry of Justice secretly developing ‘murder prediction’ system.EU to build AI gigafactories in €20bn push to catch up with US and China.ElevenLabs.Magic genies, killer robots and AI friends – all the best quotes from Elon Musk's chat with Rishi Sunak in LondonPauseAI.A streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis to restore naturalistic communication.Video of streaming brain-to-voice communication.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 touchAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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The Turing test falls to GPT-4.5
In episode 45 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover that ChatGPT is running the world, Mark learns that mattress companies have scientists, Gen Z has nightmares about AI, OpenAI gets a bag, Graham eats too many cheese sandwiches, and too much training makes AIs over-sensitive.Mark reveals why he's got beef with cows, GPT-4.5 beats the Turing test, and Anthropic’s brain scanner reveals how AIs really think.Episode links:OpenAI Secures $40 Billion to Pursue Next-Gen AI.Lots of people are having nightmares… about AI.Researchers warn of ‘catastrophic overtraining’ in LLMs.Hackers can probe your robot dog’s backdoor.White House appears to use AI in tariff rate calculations.Can you tell a human from an AI?Tracing the thoughts of a large language model.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 touchAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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AI-generated malware, and a stunning AI breakthrough
In episode 44 of The AI Fix, ChatGPT won’t build a crystal meth lab, GPT-4o improves the show’s podcast art, some students manage to screw in a lightbulb, Google releases Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental and nobody notices, and Mark invents a clock for measuring AI time.Graham explains how ChatGPT’s love for Young Adult fiction can be used to turn it into an evil malware developer, and Mark looks at the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark and a staggering leap forward in AI intelligence.Episode links:Engineers develop hybrid robot that balances strength and flexibility - and can screw in a lightbulb.Gemini 2.5.Introducing 4o Image Generation.New LLM Jailbreak Technique Enables Easy Creation of Password-Stealing Malware.New AI Attack Compromises Google Chrome’s Password Manager.The ARC Prize.The ARC test with which Mark challenged Graham.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 touchAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
In episode 43 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a robot that isn't terrifying, a newspaper shuns journalists in favour of AI, Graham watches a robot dog learn to stand, an AI computer programmer develops a familiar attitude, and New York tries to stop its humans arming their robots.Graham worries about AI vomit, a Norwegian man is falsely accused of murder by ChatGPT, and Mark looks at why we're suddenly surrounded by news about robots.Episode links:Introducing IntuiCell.New York law would ban civilians from weaponizing robots.Jensen Huang Introduces Blue: NVIDIA & Disney Research’s AI Robot.AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead.AI can forecast the weather in seconds without needing supercomputers.Italian Newspaper Creates Entirely AI-Generated Edition.AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer.Exclusive: Russian disinformation floods AI chatbots, study finds.Walk, Run, Crawl, RL Fun.Elon Musk: 10 billion humanoid robots by 2040 at $20K-$25K each.Elon Musk tells Ted Cruz he puts the odds of “killer robots annihilating humanity” at 10-20%.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 touchAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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AIs with anxiety, and why AIs don’t know what happened
In episode 42 of the AI Fix, our hosts discover why ads for the Neo Gamma robot are so sinister, Graham plays peek-a-boo with a crow, humans give up writing, an AI designs a drug, an upstart AI agent gets everyone’s attention, and a talking fish offers our hosts some sage advice.Graham wonders if AIs have feelings, and Mark introduces Graham to the reversal curse and explains why AIs don’t know what happened.Episode links:When AI met Billy Bass fish.Manus.AM Turing award.NEO Gamma robot.Insilico Medicine's AI-driven drug Rentosertib receives official generic name.The Widespread Adoption of Large Language Model-Assisted Writing Across Society.Assessing and alleviating state anxiety in large language models.ChatGPT on the Couch? How to Calm a Stressed-Out AI.Geoffrey Hinton on AI having feelings.Intuitive physics understanding emerges from self-supervised pretraining on natural videos.Episodic Memories Generation and Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models.The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A".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 touchAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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