Tag archives for DeepSeek
Why do they still not explain AI properly?
There are three kinds of people on Earth. Monkeys who use chatbots, monkeys who pretend to explain how they work, so some other monkeys believe they understand, and the few…
Guess which of Copilot and DeepSeek is censoring critical thought about this war
My starting question was this one: Are the Academy Awards (the Oscars), organized and presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), pro-Trump or anti-Trump? Why didn't…
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…