About this episode
In episode 71 of The AI Fix, a giant robot spider goes backpacking for a year before starting its job in lunar construction, DoorDash builds a delivery Minion, and a TikToker punishes an AI by making it talk to condiments. GPT-5 crushes the humans at the ICPC World Finals, Claude Sonnet 4.5 codes for 30 hours straight, and someone builds a 5-million-parameter transformer entirely inside Minecraft.Plus: Graham investigates how a simple security flaw left fleets of Unitree robots wide open to hackers, and Mark learns that we’re going to need five nuclear power plants to train just one frontier model by 2028.Episode links:Google and OpenAI’s coding wins at university competition show enterprise AI tools can take on unsolved algorithmic challenges.Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5.Intuition to Evidence: Measuring AI’s True Impact on Developer Productivity.DoorDash Dot and the Autonomous Delivery Platform.Man punishes GPT-5 by getting it to talk to condiments.Elon Musk announces he’s building Grokipedia.User builds 5 million parameters small language model inside Minecraft.Introducing Charlotte.Australia’s new robot 3D prints a home overnight; could build lunar bases one day.Exploit Allows for Takeover of Fleets of Unitree Robots.Unitree Robot BLE Service Command Injection Analysis.Nottinghamshire Police Testing Unitree Robot Dogs.PLA using Unitree robot dogs.Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters.OpenAI, Oracl
