ON the surface, it looked like the usual pre-Chinese New Year courtesy visits that politicians make to the vernacular Chinese media.
The announcement by the Chinese firm DeepSeek of its R1 model also provoked not a little hand-wringing over the idea that China could so easily have outpaced American tech companies, which have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to bring their AI performance to a level that DeepSeek seems to have achieved at a fraction of the cost. — Bloomberg
The reaction resembles the thunderbolt that struck the US aerospace community – and the government – in 1957, when the Soviet Union placed Sputnik in orbit while American rockets were still blowing up on their launchpads. Although AI chatbots may seem to the untutored user to be generating their own thoughts in responding to questions, they don't create content, as such. They have to be"trained" by developers pumping their databases full of human-produced content – books, newspaper articles, junk scraped from the web, etc.
An OpenAI spokesperson told me by email that it's aware that Chinese firms"are actively working to use methods, including what's known as distillation, to try to replicate advanced U.S. AI models. We are aware of and reviewing indications that DeepSeek may have inappropriately distilled our models." They had no incentive to seek out a cheaper or more efficient path to development because the money and energy and chips were so abundant. DeepSeek, however, seemed to show that the same goals could be reached at less than 1/50th the cost.
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