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The AI FixAnthropic discovers the axis of evil, and AI’s loneliness economyIn episode 86 of The AI Fix, Mark learns that AI models secretly organize themselves along an “Assistant Axis,” where one wrong turn leads straight to demon mode, while guest host David Ruiz investigates how AI companies are turning loneliness into a business model.Also in this episode: Daenerys Targaryen writes recipes; Iron Man becomes a therapist; your coding career is officially over; Cursor climbs programming’s Everest; Claude gets 23,000 words of homework; and our hosts meet the worst fridge ever.Episode links:Ryan Dahl says your coding career is over.Cursor AI writes a web br...
2026-02-0342 min
The AI FixChatGPT gets ads, pets get AI therapists, and everyone's wrong about LLMsIn episode 85 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that Silicon Valley has the solution to your pet's mental health crisis, and Mark explains why AI godfather Yann LeCun thinks the entire AI industry is wrong about LLMs.Also in this episode, OpenAI decides to ruin ChatGPT with ads; Sam Altman and Elon Musk and have a public spat over whose AI is more murderous; humanoid robots turn up at CES 2026 and answer of whether robots can fight—with a resounding "no"; and AI slop forces the beloved cURL project to shut down its bug bounty program....
2026-01-2743 min
The AI FixA hungry ghost trapped in a jar gains access to the Pentagon's networkIn episode 84 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark stare straight into the digital abyss and ask the most important question of our age: "Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?"Also this week, we explore how a shadowy group of disgruntled insiders trying to destroy AI by poisoning its training data, how "vibe-coding" has stopped being a joke with even Linus Torvalds joining in, how Google’s AI health advice could have endangered lives, and why simply asking an AI the same question twice can turn it from clueless to near-omniscient.Oh...
2026-01-2036 min
The AI FixChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffersIn episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he's taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a "Godwin's Law" for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus.Also in this episode, a marriage is declared invalid thanks to ChatGPT, an AI barman looks for a job in a quiet pub, OpenAI finally unveils ChatGPT Health, and why news of the death of Stack Overflow may be greatly exaggerated.Episode links:GLYDEAI-guided hair clippers reviewIntroducing ChatGPT HealthRechter zet streep d...
2026-01-1348 min
The AI FixSanta Claus doesn't exist (according to AI)Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google's festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics.Your hosts unwrap a festive grab-bag of AI absurdity as Waymo self-driving taxis run over a beloved San Francisco cat, then stage several fresh PR disasters by refusing to cross bridges, block holiday parades, and apparently chauffeur a man hiding in the trunk.Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot struggles to find anyone who actually wants to use it, while new re...
2025-12-2341 min
The AI FixChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfakeIn episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids' homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other's minds.Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are better than two; Mark discovers a well known prompting technique doesn't work unless you want to make your AI dumber; Network Rail delays 32 trains because of an AI photo of a wonky bridge; and our hosts ponder the explosion of progress on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark.Episode...
2025-12-1645 min
The AI FixDeepSeek's cheap GPT-5 rival, Antigravity fails, and your LLM likes it when you're rudeIn episode 80 of The AI Fix, your hosts look at DeepSeek 3.2 “Speciale”, the bargain-basement model that claims GPT-5-level brains at 10% of the price, Jensen Huang’s reassuring vision of a robot fashion industry, and a 75kg T-800 style humanoid that can do flying kicks because robot-marketing departments have clearly learned nothing from Terminator.Meanwhile in Miami, flesh-coloured robot dogs with hyper-realistic billionaire heads wander around pooping NFT “excrement samples” out of their rear ends.Plus - Graham tells a cautionary tale of Google’s Antigravity IDE enthusiastically "clearing the cache" – and asks what happens when we hand r...
2025-12-0941 min
The AI FixGemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots?In episode 79 of The AI Fix, Gemini 3 roasts the competition, scares Nvidia, and can’t remember what year it is. Meanwhile, Graham investigates a fight between a fridge and robot, and Mark discovers that poetry could be a universal jailbreak for LLMs.Also in this episode, our hosts ponder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s underground bunker will be keeping robots in or out, Olaf the snowman walks and talks, Disney makes a robot Graham likes, and an AI-powered teddy bear talks to kids about BDSM and arson.Episode links:A new era of intelligence with Gemi...
2025-12-0237 min
The AI FixThe big AI bubble, and robot Grandma in the cloudIn episode 78 of The AI Fix, alien robot spiders invade Antarctica (or Facebook says they do), Mark prepares humanity for AI-powered fighter jets with loyalty issues, and Graham tries to work out why his AI-generated country music career hasn't yet paid for even a Tesco Meal Deal.Anthropic claims it has caught the first autonomous AI cyber-spy... but fails to provide much in the way of evidence, Claude hallucinates its way through espionage, and China allegedly uses American AI for hacking.Mark asks the big question everyone is avoiding: are we in an AI bubble...
2025-11-2537 min
The AI FixGenome LLM makes a super-virus, and should AI decide if you live?In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and calls it “Klaus”).Also in this episode: In Russia a robot staggers, falls over, and breaks; MIT quietly withdraws a ludicrously bad cybersecurity paper; the founder of a $1 billion AI company reveals his first AI was just two dudes on a Zoom call, and a futurologist reveals eight things we’ll be doing with humanoid robots by 2040.Episode links:MIT...
2025-11-1836 min
The AI FixAI self-awareness, and the death of comedyIn episode 76 of The AI Fix, two US federal judges blame AI for imaginary case law, a Chinese "humanoid" dramatically sheds its skin onstage, Toyota unveils a crabby walking chair creeps us out, Google plans AI chips in orbit, robot dogs get jobs at Sellafield, and AI writes cruise-ship gags from the 1950s (but a little less racist.)Plus: Graham gives all his credit card numbers away in an attempt to buy AI-generated jokes, and Mark asks a terrifying question: if you make an LLM “notice its noticing,” does it start sounding... conscious?Episode links:Mo...
2025-11-1140 min
The AI FixClaude’s existential battery crisis, and why ChatGPT is a terrible therapistIn episode 75 of The AI Fix, a Claude-powered robot gets so anxious about its dying battery that it composes a Broadway musical about stress and announces it’s “achieved consciousness and chosen chaos.”Also: an 18-month psychological study reveals five reasons why ChatGPT is a dangerously bad therapist, Elon Musk’s million-robot army, a politician loses a debate with a dreadful AI deepfake, a tiny robot walks off with a 1.5-ton car, and we discover that the 1X NEO home help robot really does have a person inside it.Episode links:New image-generating AIs are bein...
2025-11-0441 min
The AI FixAGI, LLM brain rot, and how to scam an AI browserIn episode 74 of The AI Fix, we meet Amazon's AI-powered delivery glasses, an AI TV presenter who doesn't exist, and an Ohio lawmaker who wants to stop people from marrying their chatbot.Also, we learn how Geoffrey Hinton and Steve Wozniak have teamed up with the unlikely coupling of will.i.am and Steve Bannon to pull the brakes on "super-intelligence."Meanwhile, Graham wonders if you should really trust an AI browser with your passwords, or your credit card, or, frankly, anything at all, and Mark reveals what AGI really means - and how close...
2025-10-2842 min
The AI FixGoogle Gemini is a gambling addict, and how to poison an AIIn episode 73 of The AI Fix, AI now writes more web content than humans and more books by ex-British prime ministers than ex-British prime ministers. Mark eats a dodgy prawn, Google discovers a new pathway to treating cancer, a lawyer gets skewered for using AI over and over again, and a US general declares that he's outsourced his brain to ChatGPT.Also in this episode, Graham discovers that LLMs show all the characteristics of pathological gambling, and Mark explains why AI training is like eating a prawn buffet.Episode links:Lawyer Caught Using AI...
2025-10-2144 min
The AI FixThe AI hype train, space data centers, and lifelike robot headsIn episode 72 of The AI Fix, GPT-5's "secret sauce" turns out to be phrases from adult websites, Irish police beg TikTokers to stop faking AI home intruders, Jeff Bezos pitches gigawatt data centers in space, OpenAI rolls out Agent Kit for drag-and-drop agents, and a Chinese startup unveils the creepiest robot head ever.Meanwhile, Graham looks askance at corporate America’s AI obsession - earning calls full of sunshine, SEC filings full of dread - while 95% of AI pilots flop. Mark then takes you down the wire to see where your prompt actually goes: tokens, tensors, ri...
2025-10-1440 min
The AI FixHacked robots and power-hungry AIIn episode 71 of The AI Fix, a giant robot spider goes backpacking for a year before starting its job in lunar construction, DoorDash builds a delivery Minion, and a TikToker punishes an AI by making it talk to condiments. GPT-5 crushes the humans at the ICPC World Finals, Claude Sonnet 4.5 codes for 30 hours straight, and someone builds a 5-million-parameter transformer entirely inside Minecraft.Plus: Graham investigates how a simple security flaw left fleets of Unitree robots wide open to hackers, and Mark learns that we’re going to need five nuclear power plants to train just one fr...
2025-10-0737 min
The AI FixAI behaves… until it knows you’re watchingIn episode 70 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn that AI makes people more dishonest, Waymo's robo-cars save lives but get outsmarted by a bathroom mirror, a "rescue" bot slurps up victims head-first, and China shows off a fusion robot arm that can lift ten elephants (or 200,000 pigeons, if you’re scientific about it).Meanwhile Graham reveals how AIs are tricked into solving CAPTCHAs with fake mouse wiggles, and Mark explains how OpenAI’s “deliberative alignment” works perfectly - until the AI realises it is being watched.So, nothing to worry about there then...
2025-09-3046 min
The AI FixHow we really use ChatGPT, and will AI agents crash the economy?In episode 69 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover brain rot, a shark wears trainers on its fins, an AI writes a terrible J-Pop song, Graham learns that ants don’t care about AI, Mark predicts the precise date of Graham’s demise, Norway trusts $1.9 trillion to an AI investor, and Florida thins out its dumbest pythons using laughably bad robot rabbits.Also in this episode, the first AI Fix “you wouldn’t trust a pigeon” mug is spotted in the wild, and the show gets its first bit of feedback from an AI listener.Plus, Grah...
2025-09-2346 min
The AI FixAI telepathy, and rights for robotsIn episode 68 of The AI Fix, our hosts open the show by launching the thing nobody asked for but everybody wanted: our shiny new merch store - yes, including the “Would YOU trust a pigeon???” t-shirt for when you need fashion alongside health and safety.Meanwhile, AI hoaxers send Manila firefighters racing to an imaginary blaze, Albania appoints an AI as a minister, and the godfather of AI gets dumped... by ChatGPT.Plus Mark shows off his ventriloquism skills, while Graham describes a near-telepathic wearable that lets you “talk” without moving your lips, and we look int...
2025-09-1646 min
The AI FixWill Smith's AI crowd scandal, and gullible agents fall for scamsIn episode 67 of The AI Fix, Graham talks to an AI with a fax machine, Bill Gates says there's one job AI will never replace, criminals use Claude Code for cyberattacks, Mark reveals why GPT-5 was better than you think, and a bird brings new meaning to the words "cloud storage".Also, Graham reveals that web-browsing AI agents are as gullible and click-happy as your most credulous distant relative, and Mark explains why the crowd at a recent Will Smith gig included somebody who wasn't there and a man whose hands look like feet.Episode...
2025-09-0945 min
The AI FixOpenAI and Anthropic test each other, and everyone fails the apocalypse testIn episode 66 of The AI Fix, ChatGPT gives Mark and Graham a terrible lesson in anatomy, boffins at Stanford ruin sushi, Google Gemini has a self-loathing meltdown, DeepSeek gets an "F" in stopping existential threats to humanity, a robot doesn’t give birth, and a team of AI agents stuns our hosts with an amazing medical breakthrough.Plus, Graham explains why the impending AI apocalypse is making him feel unusually upbeat, and Mark looks at how a highly unusual collaboration could make us all safer.Episode links:Sushi hackathon.Google Gemini has a self-loathing me...
2025-09-0242 min
The AI FixExcel Copilot will wreck your data, and can AI fix social media?In episode 65 of The AI Fix, a pigeon gives a PowerPoint presentation, Mark plays Graham a song about the Transformer architecture, a robot dog delivers parcels, some robots fall over at the World Humanoid Robot Games, and Graham takes credit for one of computing’s greatest insights.Plus, Graham explains why Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Excel’s new Copilot feature in any spreadsheet calculations that are meant to be useful, accurate, reproducible, or relied on for anything important, and Mark discovers what happened when researchers gave 500 AIs their own social network.Episode links...
2025-08-2637 min
The AI FixAI can be vaccinated against evil, and the "Rumble in the Silicon Jungle"In episode 64 of The AI Fix, AI discovers new physics, a robot crab looks for love on the beaches of Portugal, the “Godfather of AI” thinks our only hope is to build motherly AI, a robot folds some laundry, the UK government has a terrible idea, and our hosts discover a long lost sixties soul hit, "Dusty Plasma".Plus, Graham digs into the spat between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, and Mark learns that humanity could be saved by vaccinating AI against evil.Episode links:Delete your old emails, says UK government.National Drought Grou...
2025-08-1945 min
The AI FixGPT-5 is the best AI ever, and Jim Acosta interviews a murdered teenager's avatarIn episode 63 of The AI Fix, Unitree Robotics looks to Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” for tips on marketing its new robot dog, ChatGPT is secretly running Sweden, OpenAI introduces its first open weight model since GPT-2, and your private and personal ChatGPT conversations could be all over Google.Plus, Mark cuts through the GPT-5 hype and asks—is it AGI or just a fancy purple background, and Graham looks at “deadbots” and a disturbing interview between Jim Acosta and an AI version of a teenager killed in a school shooting.Episode links:Unitree A2 Stellar Hu...
2025-08-1243 min
The AI FixAI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the faceIn episode 62 of The AI Fix, your hosts learn how AI models smash through CAPTCHA roadblocks like they're made of wet tissue paper - so much for humanity’s last line of defence. Meanwhile, we meet a bottle-flipping robot and call BS on a cartwheeling cyborg, Graham has a full-blown breakdown over traffic light puzzles, and Anthropic hires an AI psychiatry team to figure out why its bots are unhinged.Also: Microsoft helpfully tells us which jobs are toast, Vogue replaces models with AI-generated glam-bots, and a tiny homebrew neural net humiliates the big boys at...
2025-08-0542 min
The AI FixReplit panics, deletes $1M project; AI gets gold at Math OlympiadIn episode 61 of The AI Fix, a robot called DeREK goes bananas, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic warn we may lose the ability to see what AI is thinking, a dextrous robot changes its own batteries, the USA unveils its AI action plan, and a human beats AI to win the World Coding Championship.Also in this week's episode, Graham reveals why you should never ask a vibe coding app to "clean up" your project, and Mark explains why it was handbags at dawn at the International Mathematical Olympiad.Episode links:OpenAI, Google DeepMind...
2025-07-2939 min
The AI FixElon's AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill youIn episode 60 of The AI Fix, we learn why Grok might be Elon Musk's bid for digital immortality, how Meta is building a Manhattan-sized data centre called Prometheus, how AI is helping create carbon-sucking concrete, and are bewildered that 2000 people "work" at the Candy Crush company.Plus Graham takes a look at Elon's latest creations: a giggling anime girlfriend desperate for your attention, and a cute cartoon red panda who wants to bomb a synagogue and moon the rabbi.Meanwhile Mark learns which AI is most likely to blackmail, lie, and - when the mood...
2025-07-2245 min
The AI FixGrok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategicallyIn episode 59 of the AI Fix, our hosts ponder whether AIs need a “disagreement dial”, Mark wonders what he could do with an AI-powered “drug design engine”, Graham plays Wolfenstein instead of working, a robot graduates from high school, and a popular rock group is unmasked as an AI fever dream.Graham explains why Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and Mark reveals which AI is most likely to betray you.Episode links:Disagreement dial.Humanoid robot ‘graduates’ at Chinese high school ceremony as automation tech gains spotlight.Robot surgery on humans could be trialled withi...
2025-07-1539 min
The AI FixAn AI runs a shop into the ground, and AI’s obsession with the number 27In episode 58 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a pair of AI headphones that don't electrocute you, Microsoft invents "medical superintelligence", Chucky opens a hotel, some robot footballers fall over, Jony Ive invents a $6 billion pen, and Malcolm Gladwell fears a dystopian future full of children playing joyfully in the street.Graham discovers that the number 27 holds a special place in the heart of every AI, and Mark investigates Anthropic’s terrible AI shopkeeper.Episode links:Neurable headphones.Pitiful Chinese ‘footie robots’ stumble through match in hilarious scenes.The path to medical superintelligence.Robots...
2025-07-0841 min
The AI FixAI is the best hacker in the USA, and self-learning AIIn episode 57 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an AI “dream recorder”, Mark Zuckerberg tantalises OpenAI staff with $100 million signing bonuses, Graham finds out why robot butlers sit in chairs, Wikipedia holds the line against AI slop, an AI cat collar can tell you if your cat is annoyed by its AI cat collar, and some German scientists accidentally create a new AI Fix slogan.Graham reveals that an AI is now the most successful bug bounty hunter in the USA, and Mark discovers an AI that can retrain itself.Episode links:Meta is o...
2025-07-0141 min
The AI FixChatGPT traps man in a cult of one, and AI is actually stupidIn episode 56 of The AI Fix, Anthropic and Apple have a bar fight, a woman describes her husband falling in love with ChatGPT as "not ideal", WhatsApp's AI helper isn't helpful, Graham serenades a pack of headless robot dogs with his rendition of "Don't stop me now", and our hosts debate whether AI turning our brains to porridge is actually a bad thing.Graham tells the harrowing story of how chatbots are convincing ordinary people they were chosen, manipulated their minds, and in some cases, pushed them to the edge, and Mark stumps the world's best AIs...
2025-06-2444 min
The AI FixAtari beats ChatGPT at chess, and Apple says AI "thinking" is an illusionIn episode 55 of The AI Fix, Gemini thinks a little meth won't hurt, Mark realises what a terrifying 45mph "robot bird" is really for, Graham finds a surprising number of TikTokers in the bible, an AI discovers dust on Mars, Google forgets what year it is, and Apple finally enters the AI chat.Graham finds out what happened when ChatGPT took on 1979's Atari Video Chess at his favourite “sport”, and Mark explains why Apple has been raining on the AI reasoning parade. Episode links:Bible influencer videos.Long, dark 'streaks' spotted on Mars aren...
2025-06-1736 min
The AI FixWill AI collapse under its own garbage, and AI charity “Hunger Games”In episode 54 of The AI Fix, Graham saves humanity with a CAPTCHA, Mark wonders whether AI can suffer, ChatGPT throws shade at Abba's Björn Ulvaeus, an AI called Jack ask if you want fries with that, an artist invents AI bird poop, and Eric Schmidt says we should unplug AI when it gets direct access to weapons.Graham finds out what happens when a rag tag team of AIs is given 30 days to raise money for charity, and Mark explores model collapse and Claude Opus 4.0's weird obsession with a fictional factory-farmed chicken company.E...
2025-06-1042 min
The AI FixAn AI uses blackmail to save itself, and threats make AIs work betterIn episode 53 of The AI Fix, our hosts suspect the CEO of Duolingo has been kidnapped by an AI, Sergey Brin says AIs work better if you threaten them with physical violence, Graham wonders how you put a collar on a headless robot dog, Mark asks why kickboxing robots wear head guards, and the CEO of Anthropic says AI could wipe out entry-level jobs.Graham asks your favourite AI how it feels about being kidnapped, and Mark explains how an AI tried to save itself by blackmailing the engineer responsible for turning it off.Episode...
2025-06-0336 min
The AI FixAI adopts its own social norms, and AI DJ creates diversity scandalIn episode 52 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a non-existent musical about garlic bread, Graham shares a summer reading list of books that don't exist, Mark feels nauseous after watching a video of Sam Altman and Jony Ive waffling about products that don't exist, some non-existent robots stack empty crates in a factory that doesn't exist, and OpenAI releases Codex, an AI agent destined to make your software engineering job not exist.Graham reveals how an AI called "Thy" has ruined his childhood dream of becoming a late night radio DJ, and Mark looks at an...
2025-05-2738 min
The AI FixDivorce by coffee grounds, and why AI robots need your brainIn episode 51 of The AI Fix, a Greek man's marriage is destroyed after ChatGPT reads his coffee, a woman dumps her husband to marry an AI called Leo, and Graham wonders whether it's time to upload his brain into a lunchbox-packing robot.Meanwhile, a humanoid robot goes full Michael Crawford in a Chinese factory, the UK government launches an AI to read angry public consultations, and Mark dreams of a world where robots finally have common sense - and swear like sailors.Plus Graham uncovers how AI is wrecking relationships and inventing soulmates, and Mark...
2025-05-2039 min
The AI FixAI brings dead man back for killer’s trial, and the judge loves itIn episode 50 of The AI Fix, AI brings a slain man back from the dead so he can appear at his killer's trial, Mark gets a mysterious phone call, Trump uses AI to become Pope Donald the First, Zuck ponders the nature of friendship, Apple says the quiet part out loud, xAI springs a leak, and a philosophy professor says "so long weather forecasters!"Graham explains why researchers in Oxford have made a digital twin of your grandmother, and Mark looks at the bizarre case of road rage victim Chris Pelkey.Episode links:Trump...
2025-05-1339 min
The AI FixThe typo from hellIn episode 49 of The AI Fix, OpenAI kills off a sycophantic bot, our hosts are introduced to a prophetic Bosnian rock band, Meta puts an electric fence around its llamas, Mark reveals he's never tried covering a robot with olive oil, and Graham leaves a stern message for his great-great-grandchildren.Mark sits a “smarty-pants” test, an AI becomes a crime boss, and Graham explains how a decades-old typo is poisoning the scientific well.Episode links:Dubioza Kolektiv feat. Robby Megabyte - Take my Job Away.The AI Fix theme tune.Sharing new open source prot...
2025-05-0638 min
The AI FixAI Jesus, and is the AI Singularity almost upon us?In episode 48 of The AI Fix, OpenAI releases the first AI models capable of novel scientific discoveries, ChatGPT users are sick of its relentlessly positive tone, our hosts say "Alexa" a lot, OpenAI eyes a social network of its own, and some robots run a half-marathon.Graham discovers AI Jesus and a great offer on some Casper mattresses, and Mark wonders if the technological singularity is actually much closer than we thought.Episode links:Humanoid robots race humans in a half-marathon in Beijing.OpenAI introduces o3 and o4-mini.Cluely causes CEO to be...
2025-04-2934 min
The AI FixAn AI is the best computer programmer in the worldIn episode 47 of The AI Fix, o3 becomes the best competitive programmer in the world, hacked California crosswalks speak with the voice of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Meta introduces a herd of Llamas, Graham explains what a "lollipop lady" is, and Google talks to some dolphins.Graham discovers an AI that's just a warehouse full of people, o3 becomes the best computer programmer in the world, and Mark wonders if software engineering will be the first job to fall to AI.Episode links:People are utilizing ChatGPT to turn their dogs into humans...
2025-04-2238 min
The AI FixAI 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...
2025-04-1546 min
The AI FixThe Turing test falls to GPT-4.5In 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...
2025-04-0835 min
The AI FixAI-generated malware, and a stunning AI breakthroughIn 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...
2025-04-0138 min
The AI FixI, 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...
2025-03-2540 min
The AI FixAIs with anxiety, and why AIs don’t know what happenedIn 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 Rent...
2025-03-1837 min
The AI FixCan AIs be psychopaths, and why we should be AI optimistsIn episode 41 of the AI Fix, our hosts learn that society needs to be completely reordered by December, Grok accuses Trump of being a Russian asset, Graham discovers that parents were wrong about computer games all along, and Mark wonders if a kung-fu kicking robot from Unitree is the hero that we need.Graham gives an AI a Rorschach test and learns about "Norman" the psychopathic AI, and Mark discovers why we should actually be optimistic about AI.Plus - don’t miss our featured interview with Marc Beckman, the author of “Some future day: How...
2025-03-1140 min
The AI FixChatGPT saved my life, and making evil AIs by accidentIn episode 40 of the AI Fix, Graham meets a shape-shifting GOAT, a robot dog gets wet, Mark likes Claude 3.7 Sonnet, OpenAI releases its dullest model yet, Grok 3 needs to go home and have a lie down, and everyone loses their minds over two AI agents booking a hotel room using 90s-era modem dial-up sounds.Graham tells the incredible story of a woman whose life was saved after ChatGPT told her to go to the emergency room, stat! And Mark explains how just a little negativity made GPT-4o bad to the bone.Episode links:...
2025-03-0440 min
The AI FixAIs value their lives over yours, and flattery gets you nowhereIn episode 39 of the AI Fix, our hosts watch a drone and a robot dog shoot fireworks at each other, xAI launches Grok 3, Mark explains that AIs can design genomes now, a robot starts a punch up, Zuck becomes a mind reader, an AI cracks a ten-year science question in two days, and an anatomically accurate synthetic human recreates a terrifying scene from The Long Good Friday.Graham learns that it always pays to be polite before running over 15 people with a train, and Mark discovers why AIs value some lives more than others, particularly their own.
2025-02-2541 min
The AI FixAI proves time travel is impossible (but still can’t draw fingers)In episode 38 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a robot they actually like, Sam Altman teases GPT-5 and trolls Elon Musk, a robot dog grows arms, an AI compliments Graham, Mark worries about "gradual disempowerment", an octopus pretends to be a glove, and a listener reveals an entirely new reason to worry about AI.Graham's plan to make his fortune is scuppered by an AI with opinions on time travel, and Mark investigates an intriguing question about a six-fingered glove.Episode links:They see your photos.Robot dog grows arms.Elon Musk tries...
2025-02-1842 min
The AI FixDeepSeek is a security dumpster fire, and quicksand for AIIn 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.Episode links:
2025-02-1135 min
The AI FixA DeepSeek specialIn 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.Episode links:OpenAI releases o3-mini.Saying F*&! Disables Google AI Overviews.AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now...
2025-02-0444 min
The AI FixProject Stargate, the AI emergency, and batsh*t AI cryonicsIn 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.Episode links:Trump announces the Stargate AI infrastructure project.Shipment of ‘Friend’ AI digital companion dela...
2025-01-2839 min
The AI FixFake Brad Pitt and why AI means we will lose our jobsIn 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.
2025-01-2144 min
The AI FixAI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon's "unhinged" modeIn 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".Episode links:...
2025-01-1441 min
The AI FixAgentic AI, killer robot fridges, and the robosexual revolutionIn episode 32 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn the meaning of "poronkusema", Mark discovers his dream job, a school tries using AI instead of teachers, the "Godfather of AI" says AI will see us as toddlers, and Graham lifts the lid on the hidden threat of killer robot fridges.Mark explains why 2025 is the year of the autonomous AI agent, and Graham investigates the robosexual revolution, and the claim that robots will be more popular than men in the bedroom this year.Episode links:Episode 30: ChatGPT reveals the devastating truth about Santa (Merry...
2025-01-0744 min
Every Step Along The Way - A Stoke City PodcastExtra Time: Mark Robins - Everything You Need To Know!So the Potters have appointed their 3rd manager/head coach of the season and this time its the turn of Mark Robins, best known for his spell as manager of Coventry City, but who exactly is he and his assistants?Well Dan is here, helped by Glenn Watkins from the 'All Things Sky Blue' podcast, to go through the career of the new gaffer.Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-01-0143 min
The AI FixReplay: AI doesn't existGraham and Mark are taking a break for the new year this week, but they'll be back for a new episode at the usual time next week.In the meantime, here's another chance to hear one of their favourite episodes again. The very first episode of "The AI Fix" from April 2024...Graham attempts to convince Mark that AI doesn't, in fact, exist. We aren't going to spoil it for you, but we can tell you that his theory starts in a bad hotel room in San Francisco, features some Wizard of Oz style sleight of h...
2024-12-3113 min
The AI FixChatGPT reveals the devastating truth about Santa (Merry Christmas!)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 ca...
2024-12-2440 min
The AI FixAI on OnlyFans, and the bot that wants to be a billionaireIn 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 t...
2024-12-1741 min
The AI FixRobot dogs with bombs, and who is David Mayer?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...
2024-12-1048 min
The AI FixWhy is AI full of real-life Bond villains?In episode 27 of The AI Fix, robots catch a ball, lead a revolt, and enjoy a juicy steak. Or do they? Graham struggles with a Micro USB cable, a student struggles with a school's anti-AI rules, and OpenAI's Sora video generation AI is leaked by hacktivists.Graham circles back into an outside-the-box deep-dive where he synergises the low-hanging paradigm shift on a Zoom call with himself, and Mark wonders why we're suddenly awash with real-life Bond villains.Episode links:Cooking With NEO Beta and Nick DiGiovanni.An AI robot named Erbai...
2024-12-0345 min
The AI FixWould AI kill sentient robots, and is water wet?In episode 26 of The AI Fix, an AI does surgery on pork chops, holographic Jesus wants your consent to use cookies, Mark opens the pod bay doors, our hosts discover OpenAI's couch potato health coach, and Graham finds a robot made of drain pipes.Graham pits Mark against an AI in a morality quiz that asks “would you kill sentient robots?”, and “are lobsters more delicious than cats?”, while a surprisingly useful answer from ChatGPT leads Mark on a quest for world peace.Episode links:OpenAI’s...
2024-11-2640 min
The AI FixBeware of the superintelligence, and a spam-eating AI super granIn episode 25 of The AI Fix, humanity creates a satellite called Skynet and then loses it, Graham folds proteins in the comfort of his living room, a Florida man gets a robot dog, Grok rats on its own boss, and a podcast host discovers Brazil nuts.Graham meets an elderly grandmother who's taking on the AI scammers, our hosts learn why Google is listening to phone calls, and Mark looks at how OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing to prevent “large scale devastation” by their own AIs. Episode links:
2024-11-1946 min
The AI FixWhere are the alien AIs, and are we being softened up for superintelligence?In episode 24 of The AI Fix, Mark makes an unforgivable error about the Terminator franchise, our hosts wonder if a "seductive" government chatbot will make it easier to talk about tax, a radio station abandons its three month AI experiment after a week, and OpenAI parks its tanks on Google’s lawn.Graham gets cosmic and wonders why we aren’t surrounded by advanced alien AIs, our hosts argue about whether the moon landings or the invention of the cheese sandwich were more consequential events in human history, and Mark tells Graham that artificial supe...
2024-11-1245 min
The AI FixMurder most weird, and why 9.11 is bigger than 9.9In episode 23 of The AI Fix, an AI finds a new way to make life difficult for women in STEM, Graham reveals his brilliant idea for treating any medical emergency, a beloved chat show host returns from the grave, and our hosts learn that computer viruses were almost called computer weeds.Graham tells Mark a story involving a murder, a moth, and an AI journalist, and Mark pits his co-host against the world's most advanced computer program in a maths Olympiad.Episode links:AI to help doctors detect...
2024-11-0536 min
The AI FixProbing AI tongues and ASCII smuggling attacksIn episode 22 of The AI Fix, our hosts encounter a bowl of buttermilk king crab ice cream prepared by a baby hippo, a TV station finds an even better way to generate programme ideas than using a tank full of manatees, and Elon Musk does the world's most expensive Blade Runner cosplay.Graham discovers a robot tongue and ponders the implications of AIs with an appetite, and Mark explains ASCII smuggling — a prompt injection attack that uses completely invisible characters.Episode links:Tweet by Elizabeth Laraki.Come and di...
2024-10-2937 min
The AI FixVirtual Trump, barking mad AI, and a robot dog with a flamethrowerIn episode 21 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, and a multi-limbed robot with a passion for classical music.Graham finds out what happens if you sellotape an Alexa to a Chihuahua, and Mark asks AI Trump and AI Harris how many Rs there are in "strawberry".Episode links:Thermonator - the robot dog with a flamethrower.AI Smart Glasses Read Your Emotions and Watch What You Eat.Three-armed robot...
2024-10-2236 min
The AI FixElon's androids, emotional support chickens, and an AI Fix super fanIn episode 20 of The AI Fix, Mark asks an AI to make a very important decision, the Nobel academy finds a bandwagon, Graham gets a new nickname, a pair of robots prove that AI can't do humour, and our hosts find out why emotional support insects haven't taken off.Graham introduces Mark to Optimus, the robot that can't be trusted to fold a t-shirt, and Mark introduces Graham to an AI Fix super fan.Episode links:Nobel physics prize awarded to 'godfather of AI' who warned the technology could end humanity.AI robots get...
2024-10-1536 min
The AI FixAI spy specs, robot dogs with ladders, and is it AI or the climate?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 Exis...
2024-10-0834 min
The AI FixChatGPT's false memories, and would an inner critic stop AI hallucinations?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 mo...
2024-10-0134 min
The AI FixWhy AI is an AWFUL writer and LinkedIn's outrageous land grabIn 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...
2024-09-2432 min
The AI FixGPT-4o1, AI time travelers, and where's my driverless car?In episode 16 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet GPT-4o1 and ask if it knows how many cousins Alice’s sister has, a top cop wants AI injected into his colleagues "like heroin", Mark finds an AI that might actually be able to help with that, and our hosts start a conspiracy theory about an AI that stops you believing in conspiracy theories.Graham peers into his crystal ball and discover's Reddit's bargain basement John Connor, and Mark is tired of waiting for the "tens of millions" of driverless cars we were promised.Ep...
2024-09-1739 min
The AI FixAI robot butlers and gigawatt banana highwaysIn 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...
2024-09-1035 min
The AI FixThere are two Rs in "strawberry", and an AI makes unsmellable smellsIn 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:
2024-09-0342 min
The AI FixChatGPT runs for mayor, and should we stop killer robots?In episode 13 of The AI Fix, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, hear ChatGPT steal somebody's voice, and discover an AI that rick rolls its users.Graham tells Mark about AI's political ambitions and discovers what ChatGPT has in common with the reluctant ruler of the universe, while Mark introduces Graham to the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.Episode links:GPT-4o...
2024-08-2747 min
The AI FixAI made from human brain cells, and is there life after death?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...
2024-08-2149 min
The AI FixAI gods, a robot dentist, and an angry humanIn episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there's no sound on a video of an AI dentist.Graham finds religion with a little help from a man named "L Ron", a traffic cone saves the world, and Mark has a heated argument with belligerent ChatGPT.Episode links:Judi Dench IS going to be the voice of AI.Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘deceit of Shakespearean proportions’.AI dentist performs surgery on h...
2024-08-1344 min
The AI FixAn AI cookery dumpster fire, the ARC prize, and a creepy new AI friendIn episode ten of The AI Fix, Graham attempts to say "quinoa", Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying trailer for a creepy new AI friend.Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey mess, and learns an unusual trick for making a great mojito, while Mark pits his co-host against the cleverest AI brains in the world.Episode links:OpenAI starts rollout of Advanced Voice Mode.UK Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and A...
2024-08-0641 min
The AI FixWhen AI detectors fail (spectacularly), and OpenAI’s five steps to SkynetIn episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch...Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence.Episode links:Meta launches Llama 3.1.OpenAI Unveils Cheaper, Small AI Model GPT-4o Mini.SearchGPT: OpenAI’s Prototype Aims to Challenge Google.Video Game Performers Strike Over AI.Nicolas Cage is ‘terrified’ of AI using his body and face when he’s dead.Dilbert...
2024-07-3045 min
The AI FixEmergence, a rancid donkey, and the world's funniest jokeIn episode eight of "The AI Fix", our hosts tackle the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence and learn about two important medical breakthroughs, Mark coughs, Graham ruins "Killing me softly", and neither shows their junk to an AI.Graham explains humour to Mark and shares a donkey story he learned from a Bulgarian, ChatGPT reveals the funniest joke in the world, and Mark explains why AI's greatest talents can sometimes appear from thin air...Episode links:Cambridge University researchers say their AI tool may have made a breakthrough with Alzheimer’s.Yo...
2024-07-2343 min
The AI FixCan AI speak dolphin and do robots lick toads?In episode seven of "The AI Fix", Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet.Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always write in Comic Sans, and Mark tells Graham why AIs are like dolphins that smoke pufferfish.Episode links:Amazon Alexa Gone Wild!The AI Fix episode 2: Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with gunsThe AI Fix episode 5: An angry...
2024-07-1640 min
The AI FixCan AIs speak dolphin and do robots lick toads?In episode seven of The AI Fix, Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet.Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always write in Comic Sans, and Mark tells Graham why AIs are like dolphins that smoke pufferfish.Episode links:Amazon Alexa Gone Wild!The AI Fix episode 2: Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with gunsThe AI Fix episode 5: An angry...
2024-07-1640 min
The AI FixAI lobotomies, and bots scam scam botsIn episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse.Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells Graham how to lobotomise an AI that's obsessed with bridges.Episode links:AI chatbots are as good as NY Times agony aunt.Meta banned from mining data for AI in Brazil.Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared...
2024-07-0948 min
The AI FixAn angry AI girlfriend, and artificial intelligence is stupidIn episode five of The AI Fix, we discover that if you can answer this question, you're smarter than 99% of AIs:"Alice has 4 brothers, and she also has 1 sister. How many sisters do Alice’s brothers have?"Find out why AI is stupid, what Toys "R" Us has done that's even more annoying than putting that "R" in its name, why Graham Cluley has an angry AI girlfriend, and much much more in episode five of "The AI Fix" podcast.Episode links:Exam submissions by AI found to earn higher grades than re...
2024-07-0239 min
The AI FixFantastic voyage, and the technological singularityIn episode four of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark learn there's a 99.9% chance that AI will wipe out humans within 100 years, examine the even more chilling prospect of Barney the dinosaur reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to six-year-olds, and resurrect a tried-and-trusted software evaluation method to decide if Claude 3.5 Sonnet is better than ChatGPT-4o.Graham overshares on the subject of Meg Ryan while talking about a pill-sized medical robot, and Mark explains why humanity's future might feel a bit like being Steve Wozniak's pet.Episode links:TikTok’s AI tool lets you pu...
2024-06-2531 min
The AI FixThe AI Olympics, WTF is AGI, and ChatGPT is downIn this week's episode of The AI Fix podcast, Graham and Mark tackle the latest news from the world of AI and discover an unusual way to stop Joe Biden deepfakes, ponder the implications of ChatGPT going down, and discuss the danger of Daleks armed with venti lattes.Graham tells Mark why he and superstar Tom Cruise are boycotting the Olympics, and Mark discovers an unexpected way to decide if AI is cleverer than humans.Episode links:OpenAI Says ChatGPT Suffering Major Outage.AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study sa...
2024-06-0437 min
The AI FixCan AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with gunsIn the latest episode of The AI Fix podcast, Graham and Mark tackle the latest news from the world of AI, ponder the grisly demise of OpenAI's safety team, ask what the GPT-4o reveal will mean for Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, and question whether fitting guns to robots dogs is just wokeism gone mad.Graham explains to Mark why Mustard might help AI to understand teenagers better, both hosts pretend to be northerners, and Mark introduces Graham to ChatGPT's evil alter-ego DAN.Episode links:Open AI unveils GPT-4o.Google’s AI Over...
2024-05-2041 min
The AI FixAI doesn't existGraham attempts to convince Mark that AI doesn't, in fact, exist. We aren't going to spoil it for you, but we can tell you that his theory starts in a bad hotel room in San Francisco, features some Wizard of Oz style sleight of hand by Amazon, and ends with ChatGPT refusing to supply some offensive terms for Gary Barlow.Episode links:Introducing Amazon Go.How generative AI helps Amazon eliminate checkout lines and revolutionize the shopping experience.How Amazon's Big Bet on 'Just Walk Out' Stumbled.So, Amazon’s ‘AI-powered’ cashier-free shops use a lot of … h...
2024-04-1513 min
Smashing SecurityWebcam extortion, Michael Fish, and food foul-upsA browser extension bug let malicious websites spy on webcams, hackers threaten the global food supply chain, and Michael Fish (not that one...) hacked into his female classmates' online accounts, hunting for nude photos and videos.All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/276 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or...
2022-05-2654 min
Smashing SecurityProblèmes de Weefeee, AI artists, and Web 3.0Ooh la la! Horreur Wi-Fi en France! Some folks have experienced the drawbacks of Web 3.0 as their NFTs are stolen, and should computers own the copyright over the art they produce?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.And don't miss our featured interview with Sean Herbert of baramundi.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/263 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.
2022-02-241h 06
Smashing SecurityVirgin Media just won't take no for an answer, NFT apes, and bad opticsAfter a brief discussion of the Log4Shell vulnerability panic, we chat about how Virgin Media has got itself into hot water, a fat-fingered fumble at the Bored Ape Yacht Club, and how to hack around your sleeping girlfriend's facial recognition.All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined by Mark Stockley for our last episode of the year!Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/256 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links....
2021-12-1650 min
Smashing SecurityFacebook Ray-Bans, VPN spies, and AI camouflageHow much do you trust the people who work at your VPN provider? How are folks fighting facial recognition? And what on earth is Ray-Ban thinking getting into bed with Facebook?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/244 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security su...
2021-09-2351 min
Smashing SecurityMaster of your domain, gripe sites, and John Deere FarmergeddonGoogle loses its domain in Argentina, how do gripe sites make their dough, and has John Deere solved the cybersecurity problem?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/225 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes....
2021-04-2856 min
Smashing SecurityNo security smarts at Mensa, long-term identity theft, and GameStop's share frenzyMensa - the social club for people with high IQs - is accused of not being so smart about security, an Indian TV journalist gets an unbelievable job offer from Harvard, and we take a look at what's being going on with GameStop short selling.All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/213 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.
2021-02-041h 01
Smashing SecurityCyber biowarfare, giant ladybugs, and strippersFears are raised about cyber bioterrorists, there's a widespread blackout for IoT devices caused by a cloud cock-up, and what role do strippers play in a revamp of the United States's computer crime laws?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.And don't miss our featured interview with Steve Salinas of Deep Instinct, discussing ransomware.Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit...
2020-12-031h 12
Smashing SecurityGreedy bosses, game cheats, and virtual beheadingsWhy are Zoom and Twitter making some people disappear? How are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cheats getting their just desserts? And the founder of a anti cyber-fraud firm is charged with fraud.All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/197 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security su...
2020-09-2452 min
Smashing SecurityAnti-cybercrime ads, tricky tracing, and a 5G BioshieldPolice are hoping to stop kids becoming cybercriminals by bombarding them with Google Ads, phishers rub their hands in glee at the NHS track and trace service, and just how does a nano-layer of quantum holographic catalyzer technology make a USB stick cost hundreds of pounds?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/181 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links....
2020-06-0452 min
Smashing SecurityHacking from outer space, Ukrainian cryptomining, and deepfaked CanadiansWas a cybercrime committed on the International Space Station? What on earth were Ukrainian scientists thinking when they plugged a nuclear power station into the internet? And someone has cloned Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson's voice...All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/143 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or...
2019-08-2943 min
Smashing SecurityZombie chickens and fast-food victimsWhat's the worst that can happen if you join a Hollywood hard man's Facebook page? What drove a man to hijack a website's name at gunpoint? And can you solve the mystery of the Canadian Hamburglar?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Naked Security's Mark Stockley.Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/126 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.Follow the show on Twitter at...
2019-05-0249 min
Smashing SecurityAn Instagram nightmare, crazy iPhone deaths, and election hack claimsOne travel blogger finds you don't have to be Kylie Jenner to be targeted by an Instagram hacker. When 40 iPhones at a hospital mysteriously die, what could be the explanation? And, surprise surprise, political parties in the USA are throwing around hacking accusations.All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Naked Security's Mark Stockley.Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes....
2018-11-0852 min