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“AI #101: The Shallow End” by Zvi

108 min • 30 januari 2025

The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues. We are not yet spending more than a few hours at a time in the singularity, where news happens faster than it can be processed. But it's close, and I’ve had to not follow a bunch of other non-AI things that are also happening, at least not well enough to offer any insights.

So this week we’re going to consider China, DeepSeek and r1 fully split off from everything else, and we’ll cover everything related to DeepSeek, including the policy responses to the situation, tomorrow instead.

This is everything else in AI from the past week. Some of it almost feels like it is from another time, so long ago.

I’m afraid you’re going to need to get used to that feeling.

Also, I went on Odd Lots to discuss DeepSeek, where I was and truly hope to again [...]

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Outline:

(00:55) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:47) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(05:43) Language Models Don't Offer You In Particular Mundane Utility

(10:49) (Don't) Feel the AGI

(12:36) Huh, Upgrades

(16:08) They Took Our Jobs

(21:30) Get Involved