Tag archives for DeepSeek
AI Quickie: How strict are Arab countries compared to Iran?
Since the Islamic Revolution, the regime in Iran has been seen as extremely strict and oppressive: Sharia, fewer rights for women, the Ayatollah as the supreme leader that overrides the…
AI Quickie: The drone question
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the war has evolved towards the massive use of two types of drones: The Shahed/Gheran type, which are rather “old school” and…
The law says you’re responsible for the snow on sidewalks. Why?
There is a thing that bothers me in “civilized countries”: if someone breaks their neck while on a public sidewalk that you don’t own, you’re the one at fault if…
Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs
I keep being disappointed by major chatbots. You see, it's not enough if such an LLM knows about those newfangled frameworks or programming languages; it has to know, or to…
A paper about the Boltzmann brain paradox, vulgarized by AI
In a very small nutshell, and quoting from Wikipedia, “The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it is probably more likely for a brain to spontaneously form, complete with a…
I asked a few chatbots about a possible nightmare scenario
“Let's imagine the following scenario. Ten years from now, the world will have had a generalization of GenAI in all forms, and people will almost exclusively acquire information from AI…
AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026
Resolutions are meant to be broken, but I’m trying to simplify my life. I intend to stop the distro-hopping and even to stop caring about any new distros. Keeping up…
Am încercat să înțeleg acordul UE-MERCOSUR folosind boți
Prima întrebare pe care am pus-o boților: Presa românească nu pare capabilă să prezinte o analiză clară a avantajelor și dezavantajelor tratatului UE-MERCOSUR. Unul din vicepreședinții PE, Victor Negrescu, are…
We shouldn’t have forgotten Guantánamo
The BBC posted this, 20 hours ago: Guantánamo detainee paid 'substantial' compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case. Even if the case reached a financial settlement, he is “unable…
A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?
Here's a genuine problem, as per the drawing: A person who shopped at a supermarket is at point A. They could go take the bus either from the bus stop…
My chatbot use in the last week
In the last seven days, I needed to use several chatbots for personal reasons (no coding or anything) slightly more intensively than usual, and I was curious with regard to…
Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI
Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo Proton has launched a new tool called Lumo, offering a privacy-first AI assistant that does not log user conversations and doesn't use their…
Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!
The Gold Rush on AI is so unbelievable, that I missed the fact that Moonshot AI is backed by Alibaba through a $1 billion funding, literally playing on two fronts.…
Alibaba outsmarts DeepSeek in AI offerings
I might be wrong, but I believe that Alibaba’s Qwen offerings have become more interesting than DeepSeek's. At least, when coding is what matters the most to you. When I…
Žižek, l’inutile, contre l’IA, l’inutile
Il y a des crétins, et puis il y a des très gros couillons. Prenez ce que j'ai eu l'occasion de vivre aujourd'hui. En réplique à ça… 💬"Présentons la puissance…
Copilot, Mistral, Gpt4All: more AI letdowns. Back to Claude?
I hesitated about writing this post, as I tend to pay too much attention to those bloody chatbots. But even so, there are many “improvements” in them that I miss,…
I asked AI how to fix America’s “undocumented” millions
Triggered by the current events in LA, but not mentioning anything about Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, I asked a couple of chatbots if they see a logical solution…
Trying to understand the stupid Chinese AI censorship
Western-made AI agents generally censor stuff based on a set of rules regarding “public safety” (violence, drugs, pornography, terrorism, nuclear weapons, etc.) or copyright (ChatGPT refused to draw Winnie-the-Pooh for…
Cât de inutil poate fi AI
Sorry for posting this in Romanian, but it should be machine-translatable quite well. OK, să zicem că aud o melodie la radio, iar Shazam o identifică astfel (SoundHound nu găsește…
Claude’s dirty secrets and… Grok would kill for money!
A couple of days ago, in Ars Technica: Hidden AI instructions reveal how Anthropic controls Claude 4. This is about the independent AI researcher Simon Willison having published a detailed…