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Benchmarks for Mortals
Episode 61

Benchmarks for Mortals

GPT-4o gets good with text, Gemini 2.5 gets intelligent, authors get angry, and more!

AI Inside · Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

March 26, 20251h 15m

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Show Notes

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o image generation update, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro release, the emotional impact of chatbots on users, The Atlantic's LibGen database search tool, and more!


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NEWS

0:02:19 - OpenAI: Introducing 4o Image Generation

0:19:48 - Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model

0:32:27 - OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being

0:37:18 - The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

0:48:16 - Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

0:52:59 - Perplexity wants to buy TikTok and open-source its algorithm

0:55:50 - "KI ist nur ein Werkzeug. Jedes Werkzeug kann missbraucht werden"

1:03:07 - AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI

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