Episode 19

News in AI for the Humanities 1/7/25

Join Dr. Meghan McInnis-Domínguez from Buenos Aires as she examines how today's AI breakthroughs intersect with classical humanities thought. The episode examines Gemini 2's multimodal capabilities, ChatGPT's new sensory features, OpenAI's o3 reasoning model, the Veo 2 vs. Sora video generation showdown, Microsoft's Copilot Vision, Aurora's image generation on X, the Google-OpenAI rivalry, and Anthropic's alignment study. Tipping a hat at philosophical perspectives from Benjamin to Baudrillard, discover how these technologies are reshaping cultural analysis, historical visualization, and educational practices while raising crucial questions about authenticity, interpretation, and the future of humanities scholarship.