In episode 14 of The AI Fix, Graham makes an apology, Mark wonders if suicide drones have second thoughts, people pretend to be robots, and some researchers prove that all you need for an AI to generate a somewhat usable version of the computer game Doom out of thin air is to already have a fully-working copy of the computer game Doom.

Graham learns how to escape from a police sniffer elephant, an AI-generates a smell with no odour, and Mark explains why the world's best LLMs think there are two Rs in "strawberry".

Episode links:

• Women will be having more sex with robots than men by 2025.
• The Vatican wants a moratorium on killer robots.
• Kim Jong Un inspects new ‘suicide drones,’ urges incorporation of AI.
• OpenAI in talks for funding round valuing it above $100 Billion.
• Women are less interested in AI than men.
• New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time.
• GameNGen playing Doom.
• Chinese robot conference spotlights changing face of humanoids.
• Humanoids (robots or otherwise) perform at World Robot Conference.
• Led by a former Google researcher, this company wants to give computers a sense of smell.
• Computers are learning to smell.
• OpenAI Tokenizer.
• Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date.
• The Problems with Tokenization in LLMs.

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In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on "do no evil", and our hosts feel like David Attenborough as they witness herds of Waymo robotaxis honking their late-night mating calls at each other.

Our hosts discover why it's OK to make AIs out of human brains, Mark takes Graham on an emotional roller coaster through the AI afterlife, and Graham comes last in a "who's the best Graham on the podcast?" competition.

Episode links:

• Elon Musk’s ‘fun’ AI image chatbot serves up Nazi Mickey Mouse and Taylor Swift deepfakes.
• Aspect - an AI social media app.
• Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’.
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Stanford Talk Gets Awkwardly Live-Streamed: Here’s the Juicy Takeaways.
• Meet Hermes, the new frontier model having an existential crisis.
• English ChatGPT users flummoxed by language glitch as bot turns Welsh.
• San Francisco neighbors say repeated Waymo honking is keeping them up at night.
• These 'living computers' are made from human neurons — and you can rent one for $500 a month.
• FinalSpark live stream.
• The Jessica Simulation: Love and loss in the age of A.I.
• Virtual reality "reunites" mother with dead daughter in South Korean documentary.
• Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted ‘hauntings’ by AI chatbots of dead loved ones.

The AI Fix

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

Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.

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