The Intersection of Dystopia and Technology in Comedy

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 AI journalist, and Mark pits his co-host against the world's most advanced computer program in a maths Olympiad.

Episode links:

• AI to help doctors detect broken bones on X-rays.
• AI-powered garden will talk back to you.
• The world isn’t ready for AGI says OpenAI’s departing “senior adviser for the readiness of AGI”.
• Michael Parkinson is back from the dead to interview celebrities.
• New research shows robots could learn from YouTube videos.
• Opening scene of “Brazil”.
• OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway.
• Eileen Vagas’s profile on Muckrack.
• News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way.
• Letter From The Publisher: Hoodline's Transition to Hybrid Content.
• AI-Powered News Site Accidentally Accuses District Attorney of Murder.
• Bluesky post by Michael Masnick.
• Transluce.



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