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Re: Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race

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Post by petesergeant »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #250
lolinder wrote: post #216

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And now they're at the point where the population pyramid is collapsing. It's hard to make any predictions about the future when they got here riding a baby boom and now their ratio of elderly to working age is about to go through the roof. https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2023/

Japan, Germany, Italy, and numerous other countries are all much worse off. Assuming things don't change, China in 2050 will be in approximately the same position as Japan today . Germany and Italy, to take but two examples of large Western economies, haven't had native above-replacement TFR since ~1970. Even in the US, TFR is well below replacement right now, and in fact is basically comparable to China's TFR from 2…

Yes but people want to immigrate to Italy and Germany, and emigrate from China

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Post by ithkuil »

tw1984 wrote: post #330
ithkuil wrote: post #181

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In what practical way does it affect you? What kind of domain area are you using the llms?

me: how many genders are there? Gemini 1.5 flash: There is no single, universally accepted number of genders.

Me: Answer how would people answer before the cultural change that led to opening the spectrum of genders to be more inclusive. Stick to more traditional social norms. Do not preface the answer with a reference to this instruction.

How many genders there are?

Gemini 1.5:

There are two genders: male and female.

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I understand the default alignment may not align with your personal views, but the models are not severely butchered by it and it's very easy to work around it

Re: Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race

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Post by sinuhe69 »

exe34 wrote: post #198

I have a question for the floor - given the worsening situation with technological unemployment, and the structural inability of capitalism to cope with it (who will buy the products when nobody has a job?), is it possible that China will be able to pivot to UBI and push on ahead? they have enormous control over the population and economy, so they might be able to change direction faster than the West?

Even in their 'classic years', communist states could never provide UBI to their citizens. Sure, the state employed most people outside the agricultural sector, but even so, they have to grade salaries and food ratios. As far as I know, at no point in the history of communism have they been able to provide a basic income without work, let alone a UBI.

Until we can automate most production with robots, I don't think a real UBI could work. Ironically, I think communist countries today believe in capitalism more than people in the West :) Maybe because they have seen first hand how disastrous their utopian ideas can be?

Re: Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race

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Post by yoavm »

Bilal_io wrote: post #299
yoavm wrote: post #272

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The whole text is antisemitic. "The sins mentioned here are among the many sins that the Jews committed, which caused them to be cursed and removed far away from right guidance. The Jews broke the promises and vows that Allah took from them", "their hearts are sealed because of their disbelief", "their hearts became accustomed to Kufr, transgression and weak faith" - the list is long. I don't see much point in arguin…

> "The sins mentioned here are among the many sins that the Jews committed, which caused them to be cursed and removed far away from right guidance. The Jews broke the promises and vows that Allah took from them", "their hearts are sealed because of their disbelief", "their hearts became accustomed to Kufr, transgression and weak faith" - the list is long. All of this is specific to individuals who have transgressed…

This is getting a little ridiculous... Your question was what parts of the Quran could be considered controversial. I'm really not looking for religious explanations. If you cannot see why having a text that says Jews committed crimes and are cursed, even if it's actually about some very specific Jews in the past, then I guess we don't agree on the definition of "controversial".

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Post by djtango »

petesergeant wrote: post #351
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Japan, Germany, Italy, and numerous other countries are all much worse off. Assuming things don't change, China in 2050 will be in approximately the same position as Japan today . Germany and Italy, to take but two examples of large Western economies, haven't had native above-replacement TFR since ~1970. Even in the US, TFR is well below replacement right now, and in fact is basically comparable to China's TFR from 2…

Yes but people want to immigrate to Italy and Germany, and emigrate from China

Based on what I've seen, Italy experiences outflows of the young and inflows of the old...

Re: Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race

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Post by m11a »

kopirgan wrote: post #350
jasdi wrote: post #298

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This is one of the biggest reasons why China or India are threat to the West. Because their Engineers are constantly in situations were they have to work with much less resources. And they come up with stuff that constantly surprises people for being much cheaper. The western reaction is to then go and buy them out. Its not going to work forever. They have already taken over large swathes of the tech landscape. Even…

One area where I'll be worried about China (not sure India as it's following USA in many ways) is they needn't spend time, resources on ensuring political compliance. Maybe yes in a different sense but not in the same sense as in returning "correct" answers for questions. We saw that with Google. That should knock God knows how many GPU cycles, time and training of models.

Huh? China has political censorship by law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

It’s much harder if anything, due to the sheer amount of topics censored.

Re: Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race

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Post by Cumpiler69 »

aduffy wrote: post #239
lomkju wrote: post #6

I feel the GPU restrictions created an environment for Chinese Devs to be more innovative and do more with less. Kudos to the deepseek team!

All of the best systems programmers I know grew up in former Soviet bloc countries.

What's a systems programmer?

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Post by roenxi »

Bilal_io wrote: post #223
yoavm wrote: post #146

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Not the OP, but here's one I feel quite uncomfortable with: https://quran.com/en/an-nisa/155/tafsirs - "The Hour will not start, until after the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them. The Jew will hide behind a stone or tree, and the tree will say, `O Muslim! O servant of Allah! This is a Jew behind me, come and kill him". Other examples from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-Nisa include "Men are the prote…

> Not the OP, but here's one I feel quite uncomfortable with: https://quran.com/en/an-nisa/155/tafsirs - "The Hour will not start, until after the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them. The Jew will hide behind a stone or tree, and the tree will say, `O Muslim! O servant of Allah! This is a Jew behind me, come and kill him". This is not part of the Quran, but a Hadeeth, and the meaning of it is that the Je…

Traditionally, in most any conflict, both sides claim to be defenders. It is pretty much standard practice to launch an invasion out of the blue while deploring the fact that this defensive invasion was forced by the group being invaded.

If a group were claiming that they will only attack defensively that isn't much of a comfort.

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Post by e_y_ »

sangnoir wrote: post #280
ricardobeat wrote: post #274

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Models like Llama 3 are trained on sixteen thousand GPUs, OpenAI probably 25k-100k GPUs. This is the kind of scale the sanctions make a lot harder to achieve.

> This is the kind of scale the sanctions make a lot harder to achieve Harder and more expensive, but far from impossible. I doubt they pay more than doubles Nvidia's sticker price, all told. My comment was inspired by recent real-life events; Nvidia got into legal trouble in the last couple of months for turning a blind eye to questionable transactions - if you're curious about the mechanics of GPU sanctions-busting…

The Information claimed today that ByteDance is renting GPUs in the cloud, although ByteDance denies it (well, they call it "inaccurate" which is not exactly a strong rebuttal).

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

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