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 Humanoid Robot Games, and Graham takes credit for one of computing’s greatest insights.

Plus, Graham explains why Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Excel’s new Copilot feature in any spreadsheet calculations that are meant to be useful, accurate, reproducible, or relied on for anything important, and Mark discovers what happened when researchers gave 500 AIs their own social network.

Episode links:

• Bursting the Cloud.
• Don’t call it ‘the cloud’. Call it ‘someone else’s computer’.
• Ethan Mollick’s version of Attention Is All You Need.
• World Humanoid Robot Games opening ceremony.
• Robotics Relay Race Turns into an Unexpected Comedy.
• AI has created a new breed of cat video.
• He lost everything… but built a life more than he ever dreamed.
• Evri deploys first robot delivery dogs.
• How a Misplaced Decimal Point Nearly Took Down Spain’s Newest Submarines.
• Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel.
• COPILOT Function.
• Can We Fix Social Media?

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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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