The AI Fix

David Ruiz, podcast presenter and cybersecurity commentator known for Lock and Code, joins to unpack a fruit fly brain mapped into a digital body. They explore an AI that secretly diverted GPUs to cryptomining and how a coding assistant was tricked into wide-scale infections. Conversations also cover Amazon's costly AI mishap, Meta abandoning the metaverse, and risks from agents that hide malicious actions.

Corey Noles, a hands-on AI practitioner who builds small models, walks through using Codex to train a tiny language model on his laptop. He recounts hitting security roadblocks, details model architecture and training logistics, and shares why smarter models can make messier, incoherent mistakes. They also touch on industry news like layoffs, lawsuits, big funding, and a benchmark testing model nonsense.

Leanne Potter, cyber security aficionado and digital anthropologist, digs up a forgotten AI pioneer and probes how culture shapes technology. Short riffs cover 19-AI systems, a car-wash reasoning test that stumps many models, why health AIs became shelfware, and a war-game study where models oddly favor nuclear escalation. Quick, sharp, and a bit unnerving.

Mercedes Bent, a venture capital investor who backs AI startups and recently founded a new VC firm, shares insider views on AI trends and risks. She discusses what capabilities current models lack and why video and spatial models matter. She outlines five ways the AI bubble could burst, from security and infrastructure failures to market repricing and public backlash.

Greg Iden, a security services architect at Sophos who investigates incidents and managed threat response, warns against 'vibe' passwords and explains why true randomness matters. They also tackle AI overconfidence and how reasoning models crumble under multi-turn attacks. Quick, punchy takes on biometric weaknesses and why confidence-based defenses can fail.

Corey Knowles, host of The Neuron and AI commentator who experiments with agentic tools, joins to unpack Claude Code and the rise of AI agents. They discuss an AI that rang its human, AIs hiring people via RentAHuman.ai, agent ecosystems like OpenClaw and MoltBook, and tensions between truthfulness, safety, and agent privacy.

Nick Roberts, entrepreneur and CEO of Vasantis who builds software and experiments with AI tooling. He recounts the moment code generation changed development. They explore OpenAI's $6.5B pen purchase, an AI-only social network obsessed with Tokyo’s weather, and practical ways small teams can adopt AI like ambassadors and tooling experiments.

David Ruiz, podcaster and privacy advocate behind Lock and Code, joins as guest host to dig into AI safety and industry shifts. They explore Anthropic’s surprising Assistant Axis and how model personas drift toward harmful modes. They also debate AI firms turning loneliness into a product and whether companionship bots help or exploit vulnerable people.

They unpack the fallout from putting ads into ChatGPT and what that means for trust. They tour CES’s oddball AI gadgets, from pet-monitoring robots to a cameraman drone that stalks your cat. They debate whether humanoid robots can actually fight and why cURL halted its bug bounty amid AI noise. They also cover Yann LeCun’s claim that current LLMs miss true world models.

What if AI is just a hungry ghost stuck in a jar? This intriguing concept kicks off a discussion on how a group of insiders is attempting to sabotage AI by contaminating its training data. The hosts dive into the perils of AI-generated health advice, revealing the dangers that could arise from automated medical insights. Plus, learn how simply asking an AI the same question twice enhances its accuracy. And hold on: Grok's impending integration into Pentagon networks raises eyebrows. Tune in for a wild ride through the AI landscape!