When AI detectors fail (spectacularly), and OpenAI’s five steps to Skynet

In episode nine of "The AI Fix", our hosts learn about the world's most dangerous vending machine, a cartoonist who hypnotises himself with AI, and OpenAI's plans to eat Google's lunch...

Graham tells Mark about a pig-farming professor, and Mark tests Graham's tolerance with OpenAI's terrifying roadmap to Artificial General Intelligence.

Episode links:

• Meta launches Llama 3.1.
• OpenAI Unveils Cheaper, Small AI Model GPT-4o Mini.
• SearchGPT: OpenAI’s Prototype Aims to Challenge Google.
• Video Game Performers Strike Over AI.
• Nicolas Cage is ‘terrified’ of AI using his body and face when he’s dead.
• Dilbert Creator Claims He Taught ChatGPT Dangerous Hypnosis Techniques.
• Adult Content Creators Are Making SIX-Figure Salaries from Men Falling in Love with Subservient ‘AI Girlfriends’.
• Japanese AI Dating App Lets You ‘Marry’ a Bot.
• GB News Radio to Introduce AI-Generated News Bulletins.
• AI-powered vending machines are selling bullets.
• How Easy Is It To Purchase Ammo with AI-Powered Retail Vending Machines?
• Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers.
• AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway.
• OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward ‘Human-Level’ Problem Solving.

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