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DEEP SEEK. THE CHINESE PHENOMENON
Version 1 ... February 2025
- which is exactly what happened to me I expected it I got it that's all gone now
- that's all gone China is opening a new University once a
- month wow that's a big Stark difference yeah a very Stark difference and you
- want to know I don't know if you know the Deep seek story that's a little entrepreneur could you tell it yeah for
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- Deep Seek, The Chinese Phenomenon
- sure deep seek has come up with a better way of moving the artificial
- intelligence Revolution forward and it exploded into the public awareness in
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- the middle of January or the second half of January of this year
- 2025 and the Breakthrough came in in a small
- company owned and started by an entrepreneur who's the CEO of the little
- company called deep seek with the S capitalized so it's the word deep and
- then Capital seek um and he explains that he
- hired new graduates of some of the new technical universities in
- China he doesn't say but clearly the message is they're fresh they're new and they're
- cheap because one of the things that he came up with was a compe
- product basically think of it as a search engine for how to go through vast amounts of data super
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- quick to come up with what AI can do which is a paragraph or a paper or an analysis
- it's crude but it it does a lot of the preliminary research that anybody has to
- do in any field it's being used now for example to do diagnosis you feed into
- this machine the 27 characteristics of a patient who comes with a pain or
- something and you get better diagnosis because basically you can mine the
- history of that of those symptoms and see when they all occur together what
- the three most likely diseases and that just saves an enormous is very helpful
- and they have comparable applications in many other fields are use it myself I've
- begun to use it recently oh W yeah you can you can have an idea of a
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- relationship in economics between I know an interest rate and exports and you say
- what is the relationship between and the Machine gives you an answer now there are holes in it there are mistakes in it
- but it gives you a very nice place to start then you fix the holes and you
- correct the errors it's as if you had a gra a very good graduate student and said go get me
- everything on this which is what I mean I've been in that position I told the grad go get me this right and you very
- quickly discover who's the better graduate student who isn't because one of them comes back in two days with a
- wonderful and the other one comes back in two days and says how do I do this anyway
- um so it's a small company and for a tiny fraction I
- believe five or six million dollars they have done something that is the equivalent of what costs billions in
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- Silicon Valley and you know it the stock market
- the biggest company in the United States and the stock market recently was a company called Nvidia you may have heard
- of it it lost 600 billion let me do it again $600 billion dollar of value oh
- gosh in one day wow when this was publicized it turned out the public the
- publicity was that over the last weekend it really was this last
- weekend more people downloaded that program which by the way is available for free from this little
- company than anything else on the whole Apple system Apple app they bought it
- from the App Store you know so everyone in America I now know 20 people that are
- using that's fast all these things go they're not using the ones from California they're using that one cuz
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- for them I mean California is still producing these things and there will be
- comp it's not over there the one in China has flaws also it's not that it's
- just another sign if you needed it where the competition is coming and since
- that's the remaining Dynamic industry of the United States to see it there wow
- now you know before and I will be using that example now to make my arguments
- before and I believe the last time you and I spoke the example was electric
- vehicles you know that was where the Chinese but that's an old industry the automobile industry AI is the newest of
- the new explosive Industries and the Chinese are right there neck and neck
- doing it I mean it's just and then when you hear he's taking advantage of all the universities opening up I think the
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- American economy is in terrible difficulty and that the and that the
- crisis of our time which includes Mr Trump is that the response is
- denial self delusional denial which is not surprising I I have a certain
- compassion for it it's hard to be alive at a time when your
- Empire is dying is hard if your economic system is full of problems really is that conversation
- The Astonishing Story of How China Came to Dominate Elon Musk Over Electric Cars
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- we had about the electric vehicles was a couple of episodes ago and we're we're reaching a lot of new listeners now and
- on top of that I found that whole story incredibly fascinating because we think
- of the automobile as an American invention if there ever was one and we
- think of ourselves as being on The Cutting Edge of their development even now with electric vehicles in Tesla so
- for those of our listeners who aren't familiar with this story just are we not dominating electric vehicles anymore
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