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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He thinks everyone in the tech industry is a moustache twirling villain and always ascribes malice where incompetence would do.

Here's him talking about people from the tech industry:

Nevertheless, Thompson (who I, and a great deal of people in the tech industry, deeply respect)

Every single article I’ve read about Gomes’ tenure at Google spoke of a man deeply ingrained in the foundation of one of the most important technologies ever made, who had dedicated decades to maintaining a product with a — to quote Gomes himself — “guiding light of serving the user and using technology to do that.”

Back to quoting you:

There is very minimal evidence for literally EVERYTHING he writes about in this article. The whole talk of them working around the GPU restrictions also has incredibly minimal evidence and is just a rumour.

We flat out do not know how they trained Deepseek’s model.

Correct. We do not know the training data, which makes it silly to decide that it is definitely cribbed from OpenAI's model. What we do know is how the code works, because it is open and they wrote a paper. What would you consider "evidence," if not the actual code and then a highly detailed explanation from the authors about how it works, and then some independent testing and interpretation by known experts? Do you want it carved on a golden tablet or something?

I think I'm done with this conversation. You seem very committed to simply repeating your point of view at me. You've done that, so I think we can go our separate ways.

[–] masterspace 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Picking out random people to lionize too much while you demonize literally everyone else, is still being cynical.

Correct. We do not know the training data, which makes it silly to decide that it is definitely cribbed from OpenAI's model. What we do know is how the code works, because it is open and they wrote a paper. What would you consider "evidence," if not the actual code and then a highly detailed explanation from the authors about how it works, and then some independent testing and interpretation by known experts? Do you want it carved on a golden tablet or something?

Because the paper does not prove what DeepSeek is claiming. The paper outlines a number of clever techniques that might help to improve efficiency, but most researchers are still incredibly skeptical that they would add up to a full order of magnitude less compute power required for training.

Until someone else uses DeepSeek's techniques to openly train a comparable model off non-distilled data, we have no reason to believe their method is replicable.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence ( or really just concrete, replicable, evidence), and we don't have that, at least not yet.