Superstitions and AI's Taboo Names

In episode 28 of The AI Fix, the new version of ChatGPT does a surprisingly good job of telling Mark how to defend himself from a flame thrower-wielding robot dog in his living room, Graham loses 30,000 robots on the head of a pin, our hosts meet a human washing machine from the fifties, and Dr Who finds a new way to get worse.

Graham wonders if teaching robot dogs to drop bombs is a good idea, and Mark meets ChatGPT's answer to Voldemort: David Mayer.

Episode links:

• 12 Days of OpenAI.
• Line up to hose down your filthy body with AI in the human ‘washing machine’.
• Human washing machine comes to Osaka for the first time in 50 years.
• DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system.
• Researchers have created the smallest walking robots yet.
• Doctor Who showrunners warn AI scripts will ‘eat their own tail’.
• AI Fix podcast host fooled by Tesla video that claimed to show robot catching ball.
• It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots.
• RoboPAIR - jailbreaking LLM-controlled robots.
• Unitree Go2.
• AI-powered robots can be tricked into acts of violence.
• Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why.

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