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Cake day: January 21st, 2025
  • melp@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•The Unparalleled Ed Zitron Gives an Overview of the DeepSeek situationEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    The article discusses the recent disruption in the generative AI industry caused by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company. Here are the key points:

    1. DeepSeek has introduced AI models that are competitive with OpenAI’s but significantly more efficient and cheaper to run.

    2. This development challenges the prevailing narrative that AI models must be expensive and require massive infrastructure investments.

    3. DeepSeek’s models are open-source and can be run locally on modest hardware, unlike OpenAI’s closed and resource-intensive models.

    4. The company’s V3 model is competitive with OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude, while being 53 times cheaper to run.

    5. DeepSeek’s R1 model competes with OpenAI’s reasoning model (o1) at a fraction of the cost.

    6. The company has also released an image generation model that reportedly outperforms StableDiffusion and DALL-E 3.

    7. DeepSeek’s approach has raised questions about the massive investments made by tech giants in AI infrastructure.

    8. There are concerns about DeepSeek’s funding sources and potential Chinese state involvement, though these remain speculative.

    9. The article suggests that OpenAI and Anthropic may have been less incentivized to pursue efficiency due to their abundant funding and lack of profitability pressure.

    10. This development could potentially reshape the AI industry, challenging the dominance of well-funded Western tech companies.

  • melp@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•A Brief Guide to the Forthcoming Trump Judicial Nominations BlitzEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    The article discusses the impact of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House on federal judicial nominations. Key points include:

    • President Biden’s diverse judicial appointments are likely to be reversed under Trump’s second term.
    • Trump’s previous judicial nominees were predominantly white and male, with 85% being white and 80% being men.
    • Currently, there are 41 current and 8 future judicial vacancies, mostly in district courts and in states with Republican senators.
    • Some Democratic-appointed judges have rescinded their conditional retirements to prevent Trump from choosing their replacements.
    • The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Chuck Grassley, will oversee the confirmation process.
    • Democrats have limited power to delay nominations but can use procedural tactics to slow down the process.
    • The confirmation process typically takes at least two months, but can be longer.
    • Senate Democrats, now outnumbered 53 to 47, are unlikely to defeat nominees but can make the process challenging for Republicans.

    The article predicts significant changes in the federal judiciary under Trump’s second term, with a shift away from the diversity achieved during Biden’s presidency.