In 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 protection tools and advancements in AI privacy and security.
• AiMOGA Robots Selling Cars?
• How AI caught child abuser who fled to 'paradise'.
• The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course.
• Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it.
• A glitch in AI training data is plaguing scientific papers.
• Operating muli-client influence networks across platforms.

The AI Fix

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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 suspended over AI cheating.
• Cluely promo video.
• Is OpenAI planning a social network?
• Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about its relentlessly positive tone.
• Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice.
• Jesus resurrected as an influencer who you can make video calls in real-time - thanks to AI.
• AI Jesus.
• Greg Brockman says o3 and o4-mini produce good and useful novel ideas.
• Eric Schmidt says programmers will be replaced by AI.

The AI Fix

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

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In 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.
• The cloned voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are speaking from hacked crosswalks.
• DolphinGemma: Google AI model understands dolphin chatter.
• DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication.
• Meta introduces the Llama 4 “herd”.
• Tech CEO Charged In Artificial Intelligence Investment Fraud Scheme.
• Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines.
• Sarah Friar talks about A-SWE.

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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