Emergence, a rancid donkey, and the world's funniest joke

In episode eight of "The AI Fix", our hosts tackle the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence and learn about two important medical breakthroughs, Mark coughs, Graham ruins "Killing me softly", and neither shows their junk to an AI.

Graham explains humour to Mark and shares a donkey story he learned from a Bulgarian, ChatGPT reveals the funniest joke in the world, and Mark explains why AI's greatest talents can sometimes appear from thin air...

Episode links:

• Cambridge University researchers say their AI tool may have made a breakthrough with Alzheimer’s.
• YouTube Music gets new AI features.
• Firm scraps plan to give AI ‘workers’ rights after complaints it ‘disrespects the humanity of your real employees’.
• This HR company tried to treat AI bots like people — it didn’t go over well.
• App that said it would ‘use AI to weed out daters with STIs’ has been shut down.
• Elon Musk says his new AI chatbot has 'a little humour'.
• The world's funniest joke.
• Study claims AI is funnier than humans.
• "Scabby donkeys smell each other even when they are nine hills apart".
• Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation.
• 137 emergent abilities of large language models.
• GPT-4 System Card.
• Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

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