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Gemini 2.5 Pro Unlocked: Exploring everyday use cases (Pt 2 of 2)

ChatGPT passes the Turing Test, OpenAI has another release, Claude goes to school, Tinder adding AI to your rizz game and more

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April 02, 2025

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: TBH, we were kinda shocked at what Gemini 2.5 Pro could accomplish as we gave it a live/unscripted teardown. Give today’s show a watch/read/listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: NVIDIA's staggering lead in AI chip benchmarks, ChatGPT in copyright hot waters, Windsurf Wave 6 brings AI magic to your fingers and more. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: ChatGPT passes the Turing Test, OpenAI has another release, Claude goes to school, Tinder adding AI to your rizz game and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.

🧠 AI News That Matters: Ok… so Gemini 2.5 is legit bonkers. Here’s how to put it to work for you. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about: OStudy: AI might kill your company, AI bubble worries, ChatGPT image generator causing fraud concerns and more. Check it here!

Gemini 2.5 Pro Unlocked: Exploring everyday use cases (Pt 2 of 2)

Wait. Gemini 2.5 can do whhhaaaaat? 😱

Finally coming up for air after generating 1,459 images in ChatGPT's new image generator?

Just in time.

After we wrapped up our Part 1 overview of Gemini 2.5 Pro Unlocked, we're going all-in on use-cases for Pt. 2.

We're going to tackle some everyday business use-cases for Gemini 2.5, some wacky ones, and creative ones.

Make sure to listen/watch to today’s episode. (Prolly watch.) 

Legit eye-opening.

Also on the pod today:

• How Gemini 2.5 crushes PDFs 🗂️
• Interactive quizzes like magic ✨
• HR training gets interactive 📋

It’ll be worth your 54 minutes:

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight –  Internet.io lets you compare LLM responses head to head, Vapi is Voice AI agents for developers, Get Recall helps you summarize anything with AI.

AI Innovation — Meta’s MoCha model creates cinematic talking characters from just text and voice

AI Coding — Windsurf Wave 6 brings Deploys for one-click app sharing and enterprise upgrades—check it out.

Microsoft AI — Microsoft's stake in OpenAI is paying off big with surging ChatGPT growth and new AI tools like 'Think Deeper' boosting its enterprise edge. Is MSFT back on the fast track?

Agentic AI — Lindy AI released Agent Swarms. You gonna dive in?

GPU Chips — Nvidia crushes AI benchmarks, leaving rivals trailing in generative AI. 

AI Copyright — Did OpenAI train GPT-4o on copyrighted O’Reilly content without permission?

1. GPT-4.5 Outsmarts Humans in Turing Test Challenge 🧑‍🏫

A new study from UC San Diego’s Language and Cognition Lab reveals that OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model has convincingly passed the legendary Turing test, with participants mistaking it for a human 73% of the time when given a persona prompt.

This marks a major shift as AI chatbots, like GPT-4.5 and Meta's LLama 3.1, are now outperforming humans in conversational mimicry, raising questions about their growing role in automation and societal disruption. The research highlights how persona-driven instructions significantly boost AI believability, compared to basic prompts where success rates plummeted.

2. Google Deepmind Unveils AGI Safety Blueprint 🛡️

Google Deepmind has released a pivotal strategy paper detailing its roadmap for safely developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), systems that could surpass human capabilities in most cognitive tasks. The paper highlights four key risks—abuse, misalignment, accidents, and structural issues—while focusing on preventing misuse and goal deviation, such as hacking or deceptive behavior by AI systems.

With AGI potentially emerging as early as 2030, Deepmind is working on frameworks like MONA to enhance safety and transparency, alongside cybersecurity measures to limit harmful applications.

3. Claude Brings AI to College Campuses 🧑‍💻

Anthropic has announced Claude for Education, a specialized AI designed to transform how universities approach teaching, learning, and administration.

Partnering with Northeastern University, LSE, and Champlain College, the initiative offers campus-wide access to Claude, helping students tackle complex problems, faculty streamline feedback, and administrators simplify workflows. The rollout includes a new "Learning Mode" to sharpen students’ reasoning skills and funding opportunities for student-led AI projects.

4. Tinder Teams Up With OpenAI for Cringe-Worthy AI Flirting Game 🗣️

Tinder has launched "Game Game," an AI-powered, voice-activated flirting game designed to help users practice their pickup lines through playful roleplay scenarios, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o model. According to Fast Company, the Match Group aims to embrace humor and awkwardness, claiming 64% of young singles are fine with cringe if it sparks real connections.

However, early user feedback highlights technical glitches and a clunky experience, with one reporter accidentally triggering the AI to respond to its own audio. While the app promises not to train new models with user voice data, the rollout raises questions about how far AI can—or should—go in reshaping digital dating.

5. OpenAI Unveils PaperBench to Test AI's Research Skills 🗞️

OpenAI has launched PaperBench, a cutting-edge benchmark designed to evaluate whether AI systems can autonomously replicate state-of-the-art machine learning research. According to Marktechpost, this tool pushes AI agents into uncharted territory by requiring them to interpret ICML 2024 papers, build codebases from scratch (no cheating with existing code), and replicate experimental results with zero shortcuts.

Early tests reveal that even advanced models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet are far behind human researchers, achieving just 21% replication accuracy compared to humans' 41%.

Remember the days when AI couldn't handle your fancy PDFs?

When you needed THREE developers to build a basic quiz? (Trevor WTF you said this would be ready last week!?)

When getting data from a chart meant manually recreating it?

THOSE DAYS ARE OFFICIALLY DEAD.

We just went absolutely HAM testing Google's new Gemini 2.5 Pro.

No carefully edited demos. No cherry-picked successes. Just pure chaos – the way real people actually use AI.

And WHOA.

We uploaded our image-heavy Canva deck to Google's new AI beast.

It didn't just read it.

It RECOGNIZED EVERY COMPANY LOGO hidden in the images without being told they existed.

Wait…. what?!

Then it rebuilt our data charts from scratch.

Wait…. WHAAAAAAAT?!?!?

Then it casually offered to export everything to Google Sheets. All from a visual PDF mess that would make ChatGPT and Claude curl up in the fetal position.

The ceiling? Mt. Everest high. The floor? Still occasionally trips over its own digital shoelaces.

But when it works? ABSOLUTE FIRE. 🔥

1. This AI Has an Actual Brain 🧠

Gemini 2.5 Pro didn't just edge out GPT-4o. It CRUSHED it by 39 points in human preference tests.

Why? It actually thinks before answering.

You can watch its reasoning process unfold as it decides which tools to use for your request.

And that million-token context window inside Google’s free AI Studio? We're talking 1,500+ pages or 30,000 lines of code without digital amnesia.

When other AIs are tapping out after page 20, this beast is just getting started.

Try This: Copy a boolean search URL from Google (like "CompanyA OR CompanyB news last 30 days") and ask Gemini 2.5 to summarize recent developments.

We did this with major AI companies and got a perfectly organized trend analysis in seconds.

The magic happens because Gemini recognizes search operators and uses the right internal tools to parse them.

No more clicking through 30 news articles yourself.

2. The PDF Whisperer You Need 🤫

PDFs built in Canva with images, charts, and fancy formatting?

The kryptonite of most AI models.

Not anymore.

We watched Gemini 2.5 extract every word from our 15-page visual nightmare.

It recognized logos from Google, Amazon, and Nvidia that were embedded in images.

It rebuilt our pricing table with perfect formatting.

It even offered to export the data directly to Google Sheets with one click.

Try This: Upload that ancient PDF report you can't find the original file for.

Ask Gemini to "extract all text and recreate any charts." We did this with our sponsorship deck and got perfectly formatted text AND rebuilt charts we can now edit again.

No more starting from scratch when the original file creator left the company three years ago.

Talk about a simple business use-case we can all get behind. 🤝

3. Make Boring Content EXPLODE With Interactivity 💥

One prompt.

That's all it took to build a fully functioning "Chicago-pedia" with working hyperlinks between pages about deep-dish pizza and the Bulls dynasty.

We transformed a basic HR document into an interactive onboarding portal with progress tracking.

No coding required. No design skills needed.

Just plain English commands thanks to Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Try This: Take your most ignored internal document.

Feed it to Gemini 2.5's Canvas feature with this prompt: "Transform this into an interactive experience with expandable sections and a knowledge quiz."

When it looks good but not great, just say "make it more visual" or "add animation." Natural language is your new design tool.

Your team will actually engage with content they've been ignoring for years.

P.S. Gemini comes in two flavors: regular front-end via Google Gemini chat (easier but sometimes glitchy) and AI Studio (full power but can't turn off data training). For company secrets, stick with the paid front-end plan.

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