Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "DeepSeek is a Game Changer for AI - Computerphile" video.

  1. There is no catch unless you are an investor in one of these companies. You can download the model parameters and load them into your inference engine. Then you can use the model. Whether it will do something useful for you is a different matter.
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  2. They are simply partying like it's 1999, again. Meta has probably spent more money on the completely useless Metaverse, so far, than the cost of AI has been. It's just endless advertising dollars and investor dollars being burned, that's all.
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  3. It is not the academics that are patenting inventions but their universities. As a researcher you do not own your inventions. They belong to your university. That's in your contract.
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  4. As soon as that happens you won't have a job, kid. Be careful what you wish for. ;-)
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  5. Not much. The returns on investment are, at most, logarithmic. These models will get better over time but not because of size.
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  6. Neither of which can do anything useful, either. ;-)
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  7. 0.01% of all users will do that. ;-)
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  8. Yes, and none of it will lead to a stable business model. Nobody is willing to pay for AI tools. Look at search... which is enormously useful. Nobody has ever been willing to pay for search, either.
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