The AI Fix Hacked robots and power-hungry AI
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Oct 7, 2025 A giant robot spider takes a year off to hike before lunar construction. DoorDash introduces an adorable delivery Minion! Meanwhile, a TikToker hilariously punishes GPT-5 with condiment chats. GPT-5 showcases its dominance at the ICPC World Finals, while a Minecraft enthusiast builds a massive language model using a blocky world. On a spookier note, discover how a simple Bluetooth vulnerability left fleets of Unitree robots open to hackers, leading to serious security concerns. Lastly, could AI demand nearly all our electricity by 2028?
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DoorDash Dot: Cute Last-Mile Robot
- DoorDash introduced Dot, a small, one-tenth-size autonomous delivery robot with a Minion-like appearance and expressive lights.
- The robot targets local deliveries at up to 20 mph and is pitched as replacing car trips for small items like toothpaste.
Punishing GPT-5 With Condiments
- TikToker "Elon_world" used GPT-5 to guess weights of household objects and punished incorrect answers by 'imprisoning' items in a fridge and making them 'talk' to condiments.
- The clip highlights playful, adversarial interactions people stage with advanced chat models for entertainment.
A Small LLM Built Inside Minecraft
- A maker built "Craft GPT": a 5-million-parameter autoregressive transformer implemented inside Minecraft using redstone circuits.
- The model has a 1920-token vocab and 64-token context window but can take around two hours to generate a single response in-game.