AI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the face
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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.
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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