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 Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall.
• The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI.
• Another robot has started folding laundry.
• Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control.
• Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.
• Robocrab humiliated in mudflat love triangle.
• Tweet by Elon Musk, claiming OpenAI is being given preferential treatment in the Apple App Store.
• Elon Musk asks ChatGPT a question.
• Sam Altman enters the fray.
• Grok decides if Sam Altman or Elon Musk is right.
• Persona vectors.



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In 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 Hunter smashes through window.
• Black Mirror Metal Head.
• MP becomes first to create himself as an AI bot.
• Speak to AI Mark Sewards MP.
• ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
• OpenAI introduces gpt-oss.
• Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.
• Tweet by OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey
• Bruce Lee movie uses cardboard cut-out of his face.
• China's SenseTime Shocks Staff as Deceased Founder Shows Up for a Speech.
• Jim Acosta interviews AI avatar of school shooting Joaquin Oliver.
• I made an AI clone of my dead son - and let a journalist interview him.
• “An AR-15 stole Joaquin’s life, not artificial intelligence.”
• Death Star tweet by Sam Altman.
• Introducing GPT-5 (article).
• Introducing GPT-5 (video).
• GPT-5 “Chart crimes”.

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In 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 Sudoku.

Plus, Mark explores GEPA — the AI prompt optimiser that politely mutates your questions until they’re 35 times more effective than reinforcement learning.

Episode links:

• AI model appears in Vogue.
• Humanoid robot can run, cartwheel and fist-fight.
• Nuclear waste cleaning humanoid robot nails 500 ml bottle throw test.
• 500ml Water Bottle Throw Test with ARMstrong Dex.
• Tweet by Jack Lindsey of Anthrophic.
• Anthrophic’s "AI psychiatry" team.
• Microsoft reveals the top ten jobs most (and least!) at risk from AI.
• This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT.
• Bias alert: LLMs suggest women seek lower salaries than men in job interviews.
• AI researcher ‘turns down $1bn pay offer from Mark Zuckerberg’.
• Agent casually clicking the "I am not a robot" button.
• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test.
• GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning.

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