Why Is This C.E.O. Bragging About Replacing Humans With A.I.?

Why Is This C.E.O. Bragging About Replacing Humans With A.I.?

Ask typical corporate executives about their goals in adopting artificial intelligence, and they will most likely make vague pronouncements about how the technology will help employees enjoy more satisfying careers, or create as many opportunities as it eliminates. A.I. will “help tackle the kind of tasks most people find repetitive, …

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DeepSeek A.I. Is a Win for China, but a Danger to Party Control

DeepSeek A.I. Is a Win for China, but a Danger to Party Control

In 2017, China watched in awe — and shock — as AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program backed by Google, defeated a Chinese prodigy at a complex board game, Go. The decisive loss to a foreign computer program, which had similarly trounced a South Korean player, was a sort of Sputnik …

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Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.

Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.

The artificial intelligence breakthrough that is sending shock waves through stock markets, spooking Silicon Valley giants, and generating breathless takes about the end of America’s technological dominance arrived with an unassuming, wonky title: “Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.” The 22-page paper, released last week by a scrappy …

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Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.

Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.

The artificial intelligence breakthrough that is sending shock waves through stock markets, spooking Silicon Valley giants, and generating breathless takes about the end of America’s technological dominance arrived with an unassuming, wonky title: “Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.” The 22-page paper, released last week by a scrappy …

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What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?

What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?

Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. And tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears. And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek. DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on …

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DeepSeek Prompts a Reckoning Across Wall Street and Silicon Valley

DeepSeek Prompts a Reckoning Across Wall Street and Silicon Valley

Good morning on this action-packed Monday. Mark this week on your “History of Artificial Intelligence Timeline”: The creation of DeepSeek, the Chinese A.I. sensation that we told you about last week, is shaking the technology industry to its core. The super-efficient, open-source software is raising questions about the valuations of …

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How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With OpenAI and Google

How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With OpenAI and Google

The day after Christmas, a small Chinese start-up called DeepSeek unveiled a new A.I. system that could match the capabilities of cutting-edge chatbots from companies like OpenAI and Google. That alone would have been a milestone. But the team behind the system, called DeepSeek-V3, described an even bigger step. In …

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She Is in Love With ChatGPT

She Is in Love With ChatGPT

Ayrin’s love affair with her A.I. boyfriend started last summer. While scrolling on Instagram, she stumbled upon a video of a woman asking ChatGPT to play the role of a neglectful boyfriend. “Sure, kitten, I can play that game,” a coy humanlike baritone responded. Ayrin watched the woman’s other videos, …

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