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AI self-awareness, and the death of comedy
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In 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:
- More AI gaffes in the courtroom.
- Robot sheds its skin to prove it is a robot.
- Robot chair walks, climbs and folds itself.
- Project suncatcher: chips in space.
- Robot dogs are burying nuclear waste.
- Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh.
- The AI Fix episode 8: Emergence, a rancid donkey, and the world's funniest joke.
- Pro comedians tried using ChatGPT and Google Gemini to write their jokes – these were the hilariously unfunny results.
- LaughGPT.
- Witscript - An AI-powered joke-writing assistant.
- JOKER 2025: Humour in the Machine.
- New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards.
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