In episode 62 of The AI Fix, your hosts learn how AI models smash through CAPTCHA roadblocks like they’re made of wet tissue paper – so much for humanity’s last line of defence.
Meanwhile, we meet a bottle-flipping robot and call BS on a cartwheeling cyborg, Graham has a full-blown breakdown over traffic light puzzles, and Anthropic hires an AI psychiatry team to figure out why its bots are unhinged.
Also: Microsoft helpfully tells us which jobs are toast, Vogue replaces models with AI-generated glam-bots, and a tiny homebrew neural net humiliates the big boys at Sudoku.
Plus, Mark explores GEPA — the AI prompt optimiser that politely mutates your questions until they’re 35 times more effective than reinforcement learning.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
The AI Fix #62:
AI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the face
Hosts:
Graham Cluley:
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Episode links:
- AI model appears in Vogue.
- Humanoid robot can run, cartwheel and fist-fight.
- Nuclear waste cleaning humanoid robot nails 500 ml bottle throw test.
- 500ml Water Bottle Throw Test with ARMstrong Dex.
- Tweet by Jack Lindsey of Anthrophic.
- Anthrophic’s “AI psychiatry” team.
- Microsoft reveals the top ten jobs most (and least!) at risk from AI.
- This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT.
- Bias alert: LLMs suggest women seek lower salaries than men in job interviews.
- AI researcher ‘turns down $1bn pay offer from Mark Zuckerberg’.
- Agent casually clicking the “I am not a robot” button.
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test.
- GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning.
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