Podcast Episodes

Excel Copilot will wreck your data, and can AI fix social media?

Episode 65

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 Hu…

Published on 6 hours ago

AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the "Rumble in the Silicon Jungle"

Episode 64

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 l…

Published on 1 week ago

GPT-5 is the best AI ever, and Jim Acosta interviews a murdered teenager's avatar

Episode 63

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 w…

Published on 2 weeks ago

AI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the face

Episode 62

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 …

Published on 3 weeks ago

Replit panics, deletes $1M project; AI gets gold at Math Olympiad

Episode 61

In 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 batter…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Elon's AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill you

Episode 60

In 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-…

Published on 1 month ago

Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically

Episode 59

In 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 workin…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

An AI runs a shop into the ground, and AI’s obsession with the number 27

Episode 58

In 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 ov…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

AI is the best hacker in the USA, and self-learning AI

Episode 57

In 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, Wi…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

ChatGPT traps man in a cult of one, and AI is actually stupid

Episode 56

In 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 pa…

Published on 2 months ago