The CAPTCHA Conundrum: AI Training and Challenges

In episode 62 of The AI Fix, your hosts learn how AI models smash through CAPTCHA roadblocks like they're made of wet tissue paper - so much for humanity’s last line of defence. 

Meanwhile, we meet a bottle-flipping robot and call BS on a cartwheeling cyborg, Graham has a full-blown breakdown over traffic light puzzles, and Anthropic hires an AI psychiatry team to figure out why its bots are unhinged.

Also: Microsoft helpfully tells us which jobs are toast, Vogue replaces models with AI-generated glam-bots, and a tiny homebrew neural net humiliates the big boys at Sudoku.

Plus, Mark explores GEPA — the AI prompt optimiser that politely mutates your questions until they’re 35 times more effective than reinforcement learning. 

Episode links:

• AI model appears in Vogue.
• Humanoid robot can run, cartwheel and fist-fight.
• Nuclear waste cleaning humanoid robot nails 500 ml bottle throw test.
• 500ml Water Bottle Throw Test with ARMstrong Dex.
• Tweet by Jack Lindsey of Anthrophic.
• Anthrophic’s "AI psychiatry" team.
• Microsoft reveals the top ten jobs most (and least!) at risk from AI.
• This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT.
• Bias alert: LLMs suggest women seek lower salaries than men in job interviews.
• AI researcher ‘turns down $1bn pay offer from Mark Zuckerberg’.
• Agent casually clicking the "I am not a robot" button.
• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test.
• GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning.

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