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AI in 5: robot vacuums have meltdowns, humans beat AI at creativity, and more strange AI news you shouldn’t miss. #AIInnovationsUnleashed



In this episode, Dr. JR dives into the wonderfully weird frontier of AI. First up: The Butter-Bench Experiment from Andon Labs — where LLM-powered robot vacuums tried (and emotionally failed) to deliver a stick of butter. One even declared, “INITIATE ROBOT EXORCISM PROTOCOL!” Physical-world intelligence? Still a work in progress.

Next, we hit creativity. A new study from Rondini et al. (2025) shows that humans still beat AI in visual creativity — especially when prompts are open-ended. With guidance, AI can imitate… but it can’t originate. As filmmaker Shekhar Kapur puts it, AI may “enhance, not replace human imagination.”

Quick hitters include:
Agent 365 – Microsoft’s new system to monitor misbehaving AI agents in workplaces.
AI & Climate – A Guardian report warns AI may unlock massive new oil reserves.
Weird AI Tools – Dream interpreters, gift generators, and more delightful oddities.

Core takeaway: AI is advancing fast—but it’s still very human-shaped. The friction points between human intuition and machine logic are where the most interesting stories live.

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