Sounds like something a rapist would say.
Does the elephant call the ant hopeless?
One of them is threatened with extinction. ;-)
He’s not wrong. He was speaking in the implied scope of capitalism. Where u can’t do something that cheap because without the ability to hit a huge payout for investors noone will fund you.
We’re just seeing that capitalism can’t compete with an economy that can produce stuff without making investors rich.
Probably should point out that DeepSeek is owned by a Chinese hedge fund. They specialize in algorithmic trading. Can’t get much more capitalist than that. Very happy to see Chinese capitalists release an open source model. No doubt Altman and cronies will seek protection under the guise of national security. I guess free market competition is only good when you are not getting your arse kicked.
Good detail added, I did not know that. But they’re still doing so with a much smaller payout than if they tried to compete the way a US capitalist would through a closed source full ownership model.
DeepSeek: “no u”
I kind of suspect this is as much about A.I. progress hitting a wall as anything else. It doesn’t seem like any of the LLMs are improving much between versions anymore. The U.S. companies were just throwing more compute (and money/electricity) at the problem and seeing small gains but it’ll be awhile before the next breakthrough.
Kind of like self-driving cars during their hype cycle. They felt tantalizingly close 10 years ago or so but then progress stalled and it’s been a slow grind ever since.
I think with a lot of technologies the first 95% is easy but the last 5% becomes exponentially harder.
With LLMs though I think the problem is conflating them with other forms of intelligence.
They’re amazingly good at forming sentences, but they’re unable to do real actual work.
Yeah. I really dislike this “rule” because it’s commonly espoused by motivational speakers and efficiency “experts” saying you make 80% of your money from 20% of your time.
It sounds great if you’ve never heard it before but in practice it just means “be more efficient” and is not really actionable.
