Chris Stokel-Walker: DeepSeek shows global competition

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The rise of China’s DeepSeek AI signals fierce global competition, challenging the US’s once-dominant position in technology, says tech journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker.  #DeepSeek #China

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00:00Yeah, indeed. Surprise, fear, to use your word, spooked. I mean, a lot of words have

00:06been used to describe the advent of DeepSeek. The management described by some people as

00:11being geeks. I don't know if that's a fair characterization of the management and who

00:17they are. Bottom line, should people be afraid of this new technology?

00:23I don't think so, necessarily. I think one of the things that it does highlight is the

00:27extent to which we now have global competition in this space. The US has long been supreme

00:33in this area, in part because of Silicon Valley and the advantages that that gives them. It

00:38isn't necessarily a bad thing that we have global competitors. I think when we're talking

00:42about the use of AI and the way that it kind of layers into our society and is expected

00:47to do so in the years to come, we do have to be concerned about maybe some of the biases,

00:52some of the ethics, some of the societal decisions that are baked in to these models.

00:57And so while we might not necessarily want DeepSeek in the way that it is developed by

01:01the Chinese right now, one of the benefits of it is you can develop it your own way.

01:06You can download it, tweak it slightly to enable it to more accurately reflect your

01:11societal interests and your viewpoint on the world and still get the benefits of the kind

01:16of technological prowess that it has.

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