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This is a user interface choice

Bas Leenders

31 Jan 2025

DeepSeek showed that users find this interesting. To be clear this is a user interface choice and is not related to the model itself.

Antrophic CEO Dario Amodei, On DeepSeek actually showing the user the chain-of-thought reasoning.

In this "short post" Amodei discusses:

Three Dynamics of AI Development – Scaling laws, Shifting the curve, and Shifting the paradigm,
DeepSeek's Models – "What’s different this time is that the company that was first to demonstrate the expected cost reductions was Chinese", and
Export Controls, which he thinks are needed because:

Even if the US and China were at parity in AI systems, it seems likely that China could direct more talent, capital, and focus to military applications of the technology.

Mmm... American Exceptionalism, much?

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Your brain breaks a little

Hoovering up all available government-controlled data

So powerful and widely available now that it's a commodity

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