AI, Belief, and Conspiracy Theories

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 peers into his crystal ball and discover's Reddit's bargain basement John Connor, and Mark is tired of waiting for the "tens of millions" of driverless cars we were promised.

Episode links:

• Learning to Reason with LLMs.
• Traffic lights that prioritise cyclists over cars tested in UK.
• AI needs to be injected into police force ‘like heroin into bloodstream’, says leading officer.
• AI can change belief in conspiracy theories, study finds.
• Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes.
• Baba Vanga.
• Living Nostradamus' chilling prediction: AI will contact the dead.
• I'm a time traveler and the singularity is coming in 2 weeks.
• r/simpularity song.
• Waymo Safety.
• Dude, where’s my self-driving car?
• Self-driving taxi sparks discussions on challenges, limitations.
• How GM's Cruise robotaxi tech failures led it to drag pedestrian 20 feet.

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