Free Hugging Face Agents Course, State of React in 2024, and DeepSeek Thoughts
Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.
Hey y’all!
Good morning and happy Thursday! Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day — do you have plans? I’m going to go out and get some Korean food. 🫶🏻
I’ve got a list of quotes re: DeepSeek that I’ve collected that I wanted to save for the future — those are at the bottom!
Setting up MCP in Cursor.
Ask, draft, and review legal docs.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says Elon is a sad man.
Anthropic chose violence today.
A Slack code expert right in… Slack.
Future of sports commentary and analytics?
I failed my Anthropic interview.
The state of React in 2024.
Thomson Reuters wins AI copyright.
Deepfake movie is LOL:
And finally, a few select quotes regarding DeepSeek:
Bill Gates on AI:
It’s unbelievable how good humans are at discarding unimportant information and retaining what’s important. We evolved to find food and not get lost, things like that. And yet, if you’re in a meeting with four or five people, even 20 minutes later, if you say, “Okay, what was everybody wearing?” you probably won’t remember that. Whereas for the computer, because it has essentially infinite storage, it’s got an eidetic type memory where it’s all there. Humans are so good at pruning the memory down.
There are certainly a lot of innovative things that the world needs, whether it’s in diseases or clean climate technologies. But the most profound technology is AI, because it’s going to have such an impact on all the scientific work we do and even help do some of the jobs that we have to have humans do today. So I definitely recommend understanding where it works and where it doesn’t work, and there are going to be some great advances made in this next decade that make it, in some ways, even more important than the revolutions I got to be part of the digital revolution, the PC, the mobile phone, the internet. Now, of course, AI builds on all those, but in a sense it’s even more pro- found because it’s creating nonhuman intelligence.
It’s very difficult to predict because we’ve never had anything like this. I mean, people say that past advances have just broadened the job market, and people still work pretty long hours. But AI is kind of unbounded in terms of its actual capability.
Three Observations - Sam Altman:
The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use. You can see this in the token cost from GPT-4 in early 2023 to GPT-4o in mid-2024, where the price per token dropped about 150x in that time period. Moore’s law changed the world at 2x every 18 months; this is unbelievably stronger.
Google AI Chief Says DeepSeek’s Cost Claims Are ‘Exaggerated’
“We don’t see any new silver bullet technologies. DeepSeek is not an outlier on the efficiency curve.”
Silicon Valley’s delusion machine:
Thanks to apps like TikTok, Shein, Temu, and, most recently, DeepSeek, we know that China has caught up to the US and its tech industry has figured out how to innovate in ways ours can't or won’t. You might not like machine-learning-based short-form video apps or gamified social shopping platforms, but they are genuinely new ways of interacting with the web. And US regulators can’t actually stop the tide from turning — at best, the US will become an island surrounded by a global internet run by Chinese software. But what elevates this from lame to genuinely dangerous is that this delusion that Silicon Valley can now decide how the future should look has infiltrated the highest levels of the US government. And AI is the technology powering this delusion.
When Tech Bans Stimulate More Than Stymie China:
This paradox of Western efforts to stymie China’s tech development actually stimulating it is not new. As Zheng Yongnian, a Shenzhen-based scholar closely listened to by the Chinese leadership wrote in Noema in 2018, the tech restrictions already then imposed may slow the pace of China’s leap forward but will “not be able to stem its high-tech catch-up. China’s enormous reserves of state capital, its substantial pool of ready talent and its huge market will continue to drive it forward."
DeepSeek signals the dawning era of APAC:
American apps, American companies, American consumers and American culture have dominated the global market for decades. Yet in recent years, we have seen shifts. Local-language TV shows on platforms like Netflix have disrupted the primacy of Hollywood. Music scenes have localised, with majors like Universal and Warner investing in independent labels in emerging markets to keep abreast of the shift. While the US remains the highest ARPU market for social platforms, Asia Pacific (APAC) is rapidly becoming the largest in revenues.
And OpenAI rebrands:
And that’s it! Have a great day!
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— Summer