When AI detectors fail (spectacularly), and OpenAI’s five steps to Skynet

The AI Fix

In episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch...

Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence.

Episode links:

• Meta launches Llama 3.1.
• OpenAI Unveils Cheaper, Small AI Model GPT-4o Mini.
• SearchGPT: OpenAI’s Prototype Aims to Challenge Google.
• Video Game Performers Strike Over AI.
• Nicolas Cage is ‘terrified’ of AI using his body and face when he’s dead.
• Dilbert Creator Claims He Taught ChatGPT Dangerous Hypnosis Techniques.
• Adult Content Creators Are Making SIX-Figure Salaries from Men Falling in Love with Subservient ‘AI Girlfriends’.
• Japanese AI Dating App Lets You ‘Marry’ a Bot.
• GB News Radio to Introduce AI-Generated News Bulletins.
• AI-powered vending machines are selling bullets.
• How Easy Is It To Purchase Ammo with AI-Powered Retail Vending Machines?
• Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers.
• AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway.
• OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward ‘Human-Level’ Problem Solving.

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