AI Accelerates: New Gemini Model + AI Unemployment Stories Analysed

While everyone else is focused on other stuff like Twitter spats, let's focus on the real news, the developments in AI, which I would say are accelerating. Particularly if you are Google, who have just released the latest version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, fairly unambiguously, the best language model in the world for the majority of benchmarks. And yes, including my own simple bench. It beats out all other models including Claude Opus 4, Grock 3, and OpenAI's 03.

Though we are expecting 03 Pro from OpenAI fairly shortly. And that's before you get to the fact that it's quicker to respond. It's cheaper via the API. It can ingest up to 1 million tokens.

That's four or five times more than other models. Now, before we get too hyped up though, there's a reason why the CEO of Google Deepmind, Demis Sarabis, responsible for Gemini and the CEO of Google itself, Zundabachai, yesterday both said that they don't expect AGI before 2030. Now, I'm sorry for those listening on the podcast, but take a look at these two lines here. And which two of these vertical lines would you say is longest?

Well, Gemini 2.5 Pro, the latest version 0605. Yes, if you are not in America, that naming scheme is incredibly confusing. But this latest version, what do you think it says? It says, "At first glance, line A appears to be much longer than line B." However, this is a trick of the eye and they are the same length.

In fact, later on, the model doubles down by saying, "You can test this yourself by placing a ruler up against the screen. You'll find they are identical in length." For those listening, they are pretty obviously not the same length. Now, of course, that is anecdotal, but there is a reason why Sundur Pachai said that in the near to medium-term, Google will be hiring more workers, not firing them. Of course, you can't always trust CEOs, which is why I'm going to dedicate the end portion of this video to investigating all those headlines you've been seeing recently about a white collar blood bath.

I found that when you dig deeper, not everything is as it seems. Now, somewhat strangely, I want to start with an interview released in the last 18 hours on Lex Friedman with the CEO of Google, Sundar Pachai, because the ...