In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse.

Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells Graham how to lobotomise an AI that’s obsessed with bridges.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

Hosts:

Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Mark Stockley – @markstockley

Episode links:

• AI chatbots are as good as NY Times agony aunt.
• Meta banned from mining data for AI in Brazil.
• Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app.
• Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand.
• Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road.
• San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them.
• AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings.
• Amazon pulls the plug on its Astro for Business robot.
• Elderly internet scam victim accused of robbing Ohio bank with gun as a ‘remedy for her situation’.
• Lenny – The Telemarketing Troll.
• Microsoft scammer tells Lenny to shut up!
• Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers.
• Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model.

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