AI spy specs, robot dogs with ladders, and is it AI or the climate?

In episode 19 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark discover some AI podcast hosts having an existential crisis, a robot dog climbs another step towards world domination, Mark makes a gift for anyone working in tech support, and William Shatner chews through Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Things can take a terrible turn when a pair of bored students think they're Ethan Hunt, and Mark thinks that an underwater IKEA might be the silver lining to the climate crisis.

Episode links:

• NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown.
• "Echoes of the ancients" by Łukasz Jakub Bonik.
• Robot dog climbs ladder.
• Microsoft redesigns Copilot with voice and vision.
• Google adds more AI to its search engine.
• San Francisco woman trapped in Waymo as idiots try to get her number.
• S.F. woman’s viral video shows her trapped in a Waymo by men asking for her number.
• Facebook, Instagram users outraged over AI training.
• Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by William Shatner.
• William Shatner is not dead (and neither are David Attenborough, Ian McKellen, Michael Caine, or Julie Andrews).
• I-XRAY.
• Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds.
• Coastal Risk Screening Tool.
• New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding.
• How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater.
• Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate.

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