{"id":15120,"date":"2025-01-29T15:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15120"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:19:13","slug":"openai-an-irony-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15120","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI, an irony-free company"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

AI, we keep being told is the next big thing in the wonderful world of information technology. So far most AIs out in the wild have been developed at great expense and require vast amounts of electricity<\/a> to work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Until now.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"DeepSeekIn the last week or so the AI world has been shaken by the latest version of DeepSeek<\/a>, an AI developed by the Chinese.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The latest version of Deepseek (R1) provides responses comparable to other contemporary LLMs<\/abbr>, such OpenAI’s GPT-4o and o1 despite being trained at a significantly lower cost\u2014stated at US$6 mn. compared with $100 mn. for OpenAI’s GPT-4 in 2023. Furthermore, Deepseek only requires one-tenth of the computing power of a comparable LLM. This caused a 17% drop<\/a> in the share price of Nvidia<\/a>, the main supplier of AI hardware.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

However, DeepSeek is not without its limitations. As The Guardian<\/a> found out, the DeepSeek chatbot becomes very taciturn and tongue-tied when asked questions which the Chinese government finds sensitive. When asked the following questions, the AI assistant responded: \u201cSorry, that\u2019s beyond my current scope. Let\u2019s talk about something else.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n