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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The headline is misleading. DeepSeek outperforms some benchmarks by <1%, and underperforms on some by 1-5%.

Not that there's a need to lie - China is still winning. Deepseek is definitely cheaper, enormously, massively so, and on-par with other latest AI models. I'm not sure it's totally positive news, because cheaper AI tends to mean more overall spending on AI, but China winning in this space is a definite lesser evil.

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

cheaply and less powerful

So AI could be more sustainable this whole time? Interesting…

Who wants to bet their AI will be used for more useful things too?

[–] somename@hexbear.net 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AI, as in machine learning, has always had uses. Like, real useful additions to human capability. It’s very useful in pattern recognition and statistical analysis of various things.

Our more modern shit connotation comes from capitalists trying replace labor with generative AI, which is a small subset of potential machine learning uses, but by its nature sends massive amounts of shlock at us.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 16 points 2 days ago

ML has made our xsh translations coherent.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Having dealt with ML engineers in depth before, American tech companies tend to throw blank checks their way which, combined with them not tending to have backgrounds in optimization or infrastructure, means they spin up 8 billion GPU instances in the cloud and use 10% of them ever because engineers are lazy.

They could, without any exaggeration, reduce their energy consumption by a factor of ten with about two weeks of honest engineering work. Yes this bothers the fuck out of me.

[–] NudeNewt@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

That's my biggest gripe with mainstream closed source AI, they can optimize some of their most powerful MLAs to run on a potato but... they don't. And they'll never open source becaue it'd be forked by people who are genuinely passionate about improvement.

AKA they'd be run outta business in no time.

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

Is it actually “sustainable” though? I’d like to see some wattage numbers.

I said this in the other thread but I’ll say it again: our sophisticated artificial intelligence, their planet burning chatbot.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Who wants to bet their AI will be used for more useful things too?

Unlike in the West where if Nvidia tanks then the entire US economy goes down with it.

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Idk about sustainability. It still requires massive computing infrastructure, which for now requires unsustainable ways of sourcing metals

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[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Man, at this rate, China is going to somehow create a cryptocurrency or NFT that actually works and isn't a scam.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago

BRICScoin when

[–] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 days ago

Well they are looking to create an alternative currency to USD for global trade.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

china is reaching levels of basedness long thought impossible

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

wojak-nooo AI garbage

so-true AI garbage, China

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

this but unironically

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why is it based when China does it? It's still bazinga until I hear otherwise, glad they're owning the Yanks tho

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It may eventually be useful and because they're destroying OpenAI and all the other bullshit it's worth it anyway

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The US Govt. is pumping billions into this shit industry. It will be so funny when it bursts

[–] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

It's not going away. Probably every. So might as well be happier when China does better with it

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

This is about to make me go

AI geordi-no

AI, China geordi-yes

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

An incredible outcome would be if the US stock market bubble pops because Chinese developed open-source AI that can run locally on your phone end up being about as good as Silicon Valley's stuff.

I think the bubble might not pop so easily. Even if Microsoft is set back dramatically by this, investors have nowhere else to go. The whole industry is in a turmoil, and since there's nothing else to invest into, stocks stay high.

At least that's how i explain the ludicrously high stock rates that we're seeing in the recent years.

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Llms that run locally are already a thing, and I wager that one of those smaller models can do 99% of anything anyone would want.

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[–] halfpipe@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I've been messing around with deepseek, and I can already tell it's much smoother and more coherent than chatgpt or gemini.

It also doesn't have the limiters of the American LLMs, where they accidentally generate a true statement about history or politics that doesn't show the US in a good light, and then have to stop and argue themselves back into the neoliberal / US state department position.

[–] horseloaf@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Deepseek made a mistake with the first query I asked it, so from that sample of 1 I'm treating it with the same caution as any of the current LLMs.

I asked it about testing an electronics part (an Integrated Circuit chip) and it confidently told me how to test an imaginary 16-pin version of the chip.

The IC in question has 8 pins.

When I followed up by asking "why pin 16" it confidently responded with a little lecture about what pin 16 does and just how important pin 16 is.

Once I'd proved to it that the IC has 8 pins, I got this:

"You're absolutely correct that the MN3101 is an 8-pin DIP (Dual Inline Package) chip. My earlier reference to pin 16 was incorrect, and I appreciate your clarification. Let me provide accurate information for the MN3101 (8-pin DIP)."

The thing is that these chips have a unique Id (the name) and publicly available datasheets that explain, amongst other things, how many pins they have.

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[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It has ridiculous limiters on for me, it refuses to answer when I ask who Xi Jinping is

Plus seeseepee

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[–] NotLuigi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I asked it who Chairman Mao was. It got most of the way through a response and then fell back to say that was out of its scope.

[–] halfpipe@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

tried this now and it just generated a biography titled "Chinese Revolutionary Leader"

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago

I know this shit keeping em awake because mandem talking about 500 billion investment while they're ringing the alarm on an open source AI ^___^

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

mashallah xi ai can continue to lead china prosperously long after xi is gone

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago (21 children)

China's beating the US at the actual second space race too

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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Space race but instead of human achievement it's who can generate the most slop possible.

And China is winning with only one hand. The other is building high speed rail train-shining

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"B-but the tech sanctions were supposed to protect our treat machine scam?! I don't understand!"

[–] miz@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

computer, write me a happy song that references China having many sputnik moments and scaring the shit out of western chauvinists

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