AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the "Rumble in the Silicon Jungle"

In episode 64 of The AI Fix, AI discovers new physics, a robot crab looks for love on the beaches of Portugal, the “Godfather of AI” thinks our only hope is to build motherly AI, a robot folds some laundry, the UK government has a terrible idea, and our hosts discover a long lost sixties soul hit, "Dusty Plasma".

Plus, Graham digs into the spat between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, and Mark learns that humanity could be saved by vaccinating AI against evil.

Episode links:

• Delete your old emails, says UK government.
• National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall.
• The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI.
• Another robot has started folding laundry.
• Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control.
• Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.
• Robocrab humiliated in mudflat love triangle.
• Tweet by Elon Musk, claiming OpenAI is being given preferential treatment in the Apple App Store.
• Elon Musk asks ChatGPT a question.
• Sam Altman enters the fray.
• Grok decides if Sam Altman or Elon Musk is right.
• Persona vectors.

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