This Day in AI Podcast

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GPT-5.2 is here and... it's not great. In this episode, we put OpenAI's latest model through its paces and discover it can't even identify a convicted serial killer when the text literally says "serial killer." We compare it head-to-head with Claude Opus and Gemini 3 Pro (spoiler: they win). Plus, we reflect on the "Year of Agents" that wasn't, why your barber switched to Grok, Disney's billion-dollar investment to use Mickey Mouse in Sora, and why Mustafa Suleyman should probably be fired. Also featuring: the GPT-5.2 diss track where the model brags about capabilities it doesn't have.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro - GPT-5.2 Drops + Details
01:25 First Impressions: Verbose, Overhyped, Vibe-Tuned
02:52 OpenAI's Rushed Response to Gemini 3
03:24 Tool Calling Problems & Agentic Failures
04:14 Why Anthropic's Models Just Work Better
06:31 The Barber Test: Real Users Are Switching to Grok
10:00 The Ivan Milat Vision Test (Serial Killer Edition)
17:04 Year of Agents Retrospective: What Went Wrong
25:28 The Path to True Agentic Workflows
31:22 GPT-5.2 Diss Track (Yes, Really)
43:43 Why We're Still Optimistic About AI
50:29 Google Bringing Ads to Gemini in 2026
54:46 Disney Pays $1B to Use Mickey Mouse in Sora
56:57 LOL of the Week: Mustafa Suleyman's Sad Tweets
1:00:35 Outro & Full GPT-5.2 Diss Track

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