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 to buy OpenAI.
• Man builds a robot to cut his hair.
• Gradual disempowerment.
• Female journalist seeks AI boyfriend.
• Sam Altman teases GPT-5.
• Apple prototypes tabletop robot.
• The real economics of time travel.
• The efficient market hypothesis when time travel is possible.
• AI-hosted podcast discussing the extended efficient markets hypothesis.
• Listener Kenneth’s AI-generated glove with a disappointing number of fingers.
• Mark’s AI-generated glovetopus.
• Mark’s girlfriend’s six-fingered AI-generated glove.

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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.

Episode links:

• AI IQ test results.
• Deep Research.
• Concern UK's AI ambitions could lead to water shortages.
• NHS to launch world’s biggest trial of AI breast cancer diagnosis.
• Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff ‘AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency.
• Google Super Bowl ad gets embarrassing attention before game even happens.
• Nepenthes.
• Feroot Security Research Reveals DeepSeek AI’s Hidden Data Pipeline to China.
• NowSecure Uncovers Multiple Security and Privacy Flaws in DeepSeek iOS Mobile App.
• Evaluating Security Risk in DeepSeek and Other Frontier Reasoning Models.

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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.

Episode links:

• OpenAI releases o3-mini.
• Saying F*&! Disables Google AI Overviews.
• AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU.
• Movr: the robot that has a human on its back.
• DeepSeek.
• On DeepSeek and Export Controls.
• How to get Deepseek to talk about Tiananmen square.
• Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model.
• Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data.

The AI Fix

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

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