Benchmarks for Mortals

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 (openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation)
0:19:48 - Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model (blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-…)
0:32:27 - OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being (technologyreview.com/2025/03/21/1113635/openai…)
0:37:18 - The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/lib…)
0:48:16 - Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawler…)
0:52:59 - Perplexity wants to buy TikTok and open-source its algorithm (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/633973…)
0:55:50 - "KI ist nur ein Werkzeug. Jedes Werkzeug kann missbraucht werden" (zeit.de/wissen/2025-03/richard-sutton-kuenstli…)
1:03:07 - AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI (engadget.com/ai/amc-theatres-will-screen-a-swe…)

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