AI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon's "unhinged" mode

In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can't draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what social robots are, and both hosts watch horrified as somebody rips a robot's face off.

Graham explains why Elon Musk has invented an "unhinged" version of Grok and every Tesla will soon come fitted with a built-in racist uncle, and Mark looks into the disturbing phenomenon of "alignment faking".

Episode links:

• EngineAI robot walks in Shenzhen.
• EngineAI robot falls over.
• ChatGPT with a rifle.
• Aria and Melody, social robots.
• LA man trapped in a Waymo.
• Grok may soon get an ‘Unhinged Mode’.
• Elon Musk tweets how Grok will be less woke than ChatGPT.
• The definition of “woke”.
• Why Google's 'woke' AI problem won't be an easy fix.
• Alignment faking in large language models.
• OpenAI o1 System Card.

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