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…

In episode 35 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn who the 175th best programmer in the world is, the AI supervillains put on suits for President Trump, a "not imaginary" AI turns out to be imaginary, OpenAI releases Operator and teases o3-mini, and Anthropic predicts that superintelligence is only three years away. Graham considers giving his money, pet…

In episode 34 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch in horror as a vacuum cleaner sprouts a robotic arm and tiny little robot legs, a mind-reading helps a man chat up some French students, a robot dog runs as fast as Usain Bolt, and AI podcast hosts get impatient with their listeners. Meanwhile Graham isn’t tempted by NVIDIA’s $3000 supercomputer, and Mar…

In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can't draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what social robots are, and both hosts watch horrified as somebody rips a robot's face off. Graham explains why Elon Musk has invent…

In episode 32 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn the meaning of "poronkusema", Mark discovers his dream job, a school tries using AI instead of teachers, the "Godfather of AI" says AI will see us as toddlers, and Graham lifts the lid on the hidden threat of killer robot fridges. Mark explains why 2025 is the year of the autonomous AI agent, and Graham …

Graham and Mark are taking a break for the new year this week, but they'll be back for a new episode at the usual time next week. In the meantime, here's another chance to hear one of their favourite episodes again. The very first episode of "The AI Fix" from April 2024... Graham attempts to convince Mark that AI doesn't, in fact, exist. We aren't …

In episode 30 of The AI Fix, AIs are caught lying to avoid being turned off, Apple’s AI flubs a headline, ChatGPT is available to people who haven't left the 1970s, our hosts regret to inform you that an AI artist now has a personality, and ant-like robots join forces to lob each other over things. Graham discovers that Google Gemini is checking it…

In episode 29 of The AI Fix, an AI company makes the bold step of urging us to "stop hiring humans", Graham is wrong about GB AI, parents prepare their kids for the imminent Moxie-mageddon, Google releases Gemini 2.0, and a robot is found dead at work and nobody knows why. Graham inspects the AI Miss World competition for research purposes and wond…

In episode 28 of The AI Fix, the new version of ChatGPT does a surprisingly good job of telling Mark how to defend himself from a flame thrower-wielding robot dog in his living room, Graham loses 30,000 robots on the head of a pin, our hosts meet a human washing machine from the fifties, and Dr Who finds a new way to get worse. Graham wonders if te…

In episode 27 of The AI Fix, robots catch a ball, lead a revolt, and enjoy a juicy steak. Or do they? Graham struggles with a Micro USB cable, a student struggles with a school's anti-AI rules, and OpenAI's Sora video generation AI is leaked by hacktivists. Graham circles back into an outside-the-box deep-dive where he synergises the low-hanging pa…

In episode 26 of The AI Fix, an AI does surgery on pork chops, holographic Jesus wants your consent to use cookies, Mark opens the pod bay doors, our hosts discover OpenAI's couch potato health coach, and Graham finds a robot made of drain pipes. Graham pits Mark against an AI in a morality quiz that asks “would you kill sentient robots?”, and “are…

In episode 25 of The AI Fix, humanity creates a satellite called Skynet and then loses it, Graham folds proteins in the comfort of his living room, a Florida man gets a robot dog, Grok rats on its own boss, and a podcast host discovers Brazil nuts. Graham meets an elderly grandmother who's taking on the AI scammers, our hosts learn why Google is li…

In episode 24 of The AI Fix, Mark makes an unforgivable error about the Terminator franchise, our hosts wonder if a "seductive" government chatbot will make it easier to talk about tax, a radio station abandons its three month AI experiment after a week, and OpenAI parks its tanks on Google’s lawn. Graham gets cosmic and wonders why we aren’t surro…

In episode 23 of The AI Fix, an AI finds a new way to make life difficult for women in STEM, Graham reveals his brilliant idea for treating any medical emergency, a beloved chat show host returns from the grave, and our hosts learn that computer viruses were almost called computer weeds. Graham tells Mark a story involving a murder, a moth, and an …

In episode 22 of The AI Fix, our hosts encounter a bowl of buttermilk king crab ice cream prepared by a baby hippo, a TV station finds an even better way to generate programme ideas than using a tank full of manatees, and Elon Musk does the world's most expensive Blade Runner cosplay. Graham discovers a robot tongue and ponders the implications of …

In episode 21 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, and a multi-limbed robot with a passion for classical music. Graham finds out what happens if you sellotape an Alexa to a Chihuahua, and Mark asks AI Tr…

In episode 20 of The AI Fix, Mark asks an AI to make a very important decision, the Nobel academy finds a bandwagon, Graham gets a new nickname, a pair of robots prove that AI can't do humour, and our hosts find out why emotional support insects haven't taken off. Graham introduces Mark to Optimus, the robot that can't be trusted to fold a t-shirt,…

In episode 19 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark discover some AI podcast hosts having an existential crisis, a robot dog climbs another step towards world domination, Mark makes a gift for anyone working in tech support, and William Shatner chews through Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Things can take a terrible turn when a pair of bored students think…

In episode 18 of The AI Fix our hosts discover that OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode is too emotional for Europeans, a listener writes a Viking saga about LinkedIn, ChatGPT is a terrible doctor, and the voice of Meta AI takes to Meta's platforms to complain about Meta AI reading things people post on Meta's platforms. Mark discovers what Darth Vader re…

In episode 17 of The AI Fix, our hosts meet the worst newsreaders in the world, Graham learns about Big Trak and is shocked by a food delivery robot, Mark explains why he won't be dressing as a pirate, ChatGPT angelically removes a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR, and everyone thinks they've got Ebola. Graham explains how his career in fashion ca…

In episode 16 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet GPT-4o1 and ask if it knows how many cousins Alice’s sister has, a top cop wants AI injected into his colleagues "like heroin", Mark finds an AI that might actually be able to help with that, and our hosts start a conspiracy theory about an AI that stops you believing in conspiracy theories. Graham …

In episode 15 of The AI Fix, Graham learns there's one W in Mississippi, ChatGPT finds Mark's G-spot, nobody watches Megalopolis, Alexa is unmasked as a "commie operative", and our hosts learn that AI will soon need dedicated nuclear reactors. Graham introduces Mark to a forlorn robot butler folding a shirt, and Mark explains why AI is like a highw…

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 learn…

In episode 13 of The AI Fix, meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, hear ChatGPT steal somebody's voice, and discover an AI that rick rolls its users. Graham tells Mark a…

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 call…