China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals.
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from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 2025 07:56
https://programming.dev/post/26909229
from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 2025 07:56
https://programming.dev/post/26909229
- DeepSeek is now embedded in a wide range of products and government services in the country.
- Some officials have warned about overreliance on DeepSeek.
- Beijing views AI development as a critical driver of economic growth and a strategic pillar in global tech competition.
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Big Brother wasn’t in the TV it was in the A/C.
LOL. Who in hell wants to talk to appliances like that? If I wanted to talk to an appliances at all (not really) it would be to give very explicit instructions, not some vague complaint.
Translation: “We couldn’t figure out how to get an LLM to not do this, so we’re just going to call it a feature.”
Who had ‘murdered in their sleep by Henry the Hoover’ on their bingo card?
Tbh, I’m more worried about their advances in EUV lithography. Still around 5-10 years away, but still.
This doesn’t really sound like a revolutionary use case.
Maybe an LLM query ran faster than doing a search in a map tool, but by how much?
It’s basically the same as a non-LLM voice assistant.
Can’t be that much, since someone could pull up the satellite navigation on their phone, to much the same effect these days. At most it saves maybe a minute.
Something tells me that "catch your thoughts accurately" was the real mission all along.
Can’t wait to ask my door if I can go out today.
So chinese companies are enshittifying too. Super cool
hopefully they experience the Maximum Overdrive first and then end this nonsense.
Chinese companies have always been enshitifying for decades. A defining characteristic of China is that it’s pure capitalism with very little regulation compares to even the US, and nowhere close to the EU.
It’s single-party state capitalism, so the enshittification is already neck-deep.
More like enshitification is the norm.
What’s capitalism without enshitification? And in an actually functioning society where capitalism is not literally the only thing the society operates on, there would be regulatory and state policies preventing enshitification from becoming the only thing there is because supposedly a government is one of the things that is NOT for-profit like a company. So without that enshitification would be the only thing left in a pure capitalism society.
And we are watching exactly how it’s like when a government is becoming for-profit in the US :(
Good luck exporting that to the EU.
I just want dumb appliances that stay dumb and don’t need no ai or app shit.
And I want OS that just launch and download programs I click without account login requirements and ai shit trying to be my dumb shit buddy.
Agreed, No AI that I can’t turn off. No AI that can’t be turned off without disabling critical functionality.
If I buy a toaster, a fridge or a washing machine, I don’t need it to have an internet connection or an OS, let alone AI. The only thing it needs an OS for is to collect data on me that can be sold to aggregators. That should be illegal, and if I can’t disable it, I won’t buy the gadget.
Like I said before, the only thing ai could provide me for me to consider it remotely useful is a time machine…and that is not fucking happening
System prompt: “pretend it’s 1989”
My AI can do that actually.
The strangest twist to this is that Deepseek itself seems to be the only company not trying to cash in on the Deepseek frenzy: