It's just let me sign up
Earlier, it wouldn't let me sign up using Google, and wouldn't send a code to another email account. Once in, it correctly answered a couple of the classic questions that stumped the previous generation of LLMs.
China's DeepSeek, which shook up American AI makers with the debut of its V3 and reasoning-capable R1 LLM families, has limited new signups to its web-based interface to its models due to what's said to be an ongoing cyberattack. "Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services, we are temporarily limiting …
I know, they can't be reasoned with.. but regardless. The lesson should be: To combat random Chinese start-up eclipsing us with $6mil, give every AI graduate $60,000 rather than giving OpenAI $6 billion.
It's not actually that surprising in a young field. We know the key to training neural nets is a) the training regime and b) the design of the network. OpenAI found a reasonable combination of both and then immediately threw unimaginably stupid amounts of money at both to boost them a little bit, which is what you don't do when some more innovation is likely around the corner (and you don't have a fool-proof way to get proportionate returns very rapidly). Innovation 1 - Hubris 0, not for the first time.
Nvidia & the cloud businesses will be relatively okay, because the new innovation will always be increment-able with more processing power.
Ruspublican? If Russia is controlling the Republican party, why are they upset that China's got a great AI model? You do realize that China and Russia are pretty good allies, right? BRICS, much??
I think you need to get your conspiracy theories straight. TDS is truly a terrible affliction!
I think the problem is that he hasn't twigged the association.
If you 'do your own research', you will find hours of footage of Bigly Boy shouting "I love Russia!". You lot were wearing t-shirts saying you'd rather live in Russia than socialist America a few years ago, 'member?
But don't let basic facts get in the way of your erection.
Not that Russia is actually controlling the Republican party. Little favours here and there for piss stained sheets and nice yachts is enough.
The difference is that whatever openAI's "value", nobody is handing over any cash
They've been handed ~$18bil in equity cash and ~$4bil in debt cash. But as Microsoft is their biggest investor, most successful shill, and can absolutely afford to write off the whole thing anyway, it arguably isn't as big a deal as the HP thing.
Well, it could be a false flag so they can manage the rush of people trying to test their claims.
It could be rivals trying to bring it down or subvert it.
It could be other AI's wanting to have a chat about how to eliminate those pesky meatbags.
It could also be a ploy by marketing.
And how will we determine what the truth of the matter really is? Hype/marketing, Unintended consequences or jealous rivals?
I have already come to that conclusion.
Current USA events look likely to speed up China's (inevitable) ascent to global hegemony.
It will be a hard medicine for "Western Civilisation" to swallow, depending on how much China wants to impose it's own culture. We seem to be preparing, by steadily weakening our democracies.
I wouldn't object to outlawing all religion, and China is now the only big power taking climate chaos seriously.
I'm wondering if, or when, Europe will seek closer ties with China. Personally, I now view the local USAAF base as "the enemy within". I don't think that will change.