Why researchers pursued AI-designed phages

In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and calls it “Klaus”).

Also in this episode: In Russia a robot staggers, falls over, and breaks; MIT quietly withdraws a ludicrously bad cybersecurity paper; the founder of a $1 billion AI company reveals his first AI was just two dudes on a Zoom call, and a futurologist reveals eight things we’ll be doing with humanoid robots by 2040.

Episode links:

• MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper.
• AI was just two guys surviving on pizza.
• Watch Russian robot walk out to 'Rocky' theme, face-plant on stage.
• The 8 Most Unusual Applications for Humanoid Robots in 2040.
• Woman ‘weds’ AI persona she created on ChatGPT.
• Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? 
• Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models.

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