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DeepSeek R1 is wildly overhyped, but you can try it at home (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

The big claim is that R1 was trained on far less computing power than OpenAI’s models at a fraction of the cost.

And people believe this ... why? I mean, shouldn't the default assumption about anything anyone in AI says is that it's a lie?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And people believe this … why?

Maybe people believe that all the AI stuff is just magic [insert sparkle emoji], and that can terminate further thought...

Edit: heh, turns out there's science about that notion

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