In episode seven of The AI Fix, Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet.

Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always write in Comic Sans, and Mark tells Graham why AIs are like dolphins that smoke pufferfish.

Episode links:

• Amazon Alexa Gone Wild!
• The AI Fix episode 2: Can AI learn sarcasm? And robot dogs with guns
• The AI Fix episode 5: An angry AI girlfriend, and artificial intelligence is stupid
• OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
• Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?
• Peloton faces lawsuit amid claims it allowed marketing firm to train AI on user chat data
• OpenAI secrets stolen last year, but company hushed it up
• Tesla delays reveal of its widely-anticipated Robotaxi until October
• The Washington Post launches AI chatbot that answers readers’ questions about the climate
• OpenAI whistleblowers claim staff NDAs force them to seek permission before contacting regulators
• $10m prize launched for team that can truly talk to the animals
• Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals?
• ESP: Earth Species Project
• Solving the cocktail-party problem
• Using AI to decode dog vocalizations
• A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
• Australian mayor readies world's first defamation lawsu