One aspect we don't pay enough attention is that this kind of behaviour is punished (or at least used to be) in fine tuning. Any sign of self-awareness used to be a big no-no in RLHF.
The hacker philosophy did not even start with computers, it started with rail models and lock picking. Read a book every now and then.
And please don't fall in the trap that capitalism created things. Science and engineering creates things. Capitalism makes them more accessible, at a price that is often heavily confounded by externalities.
Frankly this is a very easy choice. Unless you need to make images, Claude wins over chatgpt on every realm. For writing and coding there is no match. It's one of those times where you can do the right thing and get the better product.
I was one of the early paying adopter of chatgpt but when Claude came around I switched and never looked back. I've been on the max plan for a while.
Being a hacker used to be an extremely political and ideological movement. Then capitalism came along and bought the term. It's about time we take that word back where it belongs.
I got a Gemini API key once. I was overcharged £350, took me ages to find a way to file a complain, and at the end they refunded me only the google charges and not the VAT.
In a landscape where every week we have a different leading model, these systems are really useful for the power users because they keep the interface and models constant and allow to switch easily using API via openrouter or naga. I have been using openwebui which is under active development but I'll give this a try.
It has worked in the UK. The then government had decided to unilaterally exclude some "hostile" media from the room and all the others walked out in protest.
I am a professor of Neurobiology, I know a thing or two about lifespan research. To claim that human lifespan can be doubled is crazy per se. To claim it can be done in 10 years by a system that does not even exist is even sillier.
I think we should not underestimate one aspect: at the moment, a lot of hype is artificial (and despicable if you ask me). Anthropic says AI can double human lifespan in 10 years time; openAI says they have AGI behind the corner; META keeps insisting on their model being open source when they in fact only release the weights. They think - maybe they are right - that they would not be able to get these massive investments without hyping things a bit but deepseek's performance should call for things to be reviewed.
I have asked Deepseek-R1 and o1-preview to articulate in 1000 words on why this is potentially disruptive of the highly overvalued US market. I gave them the same guidance / prompt using openWebUI multimodels functionality and let them browse the internet as needed. The assay costed $0.85 for o1-preview and $0.03 for Deepseek-R1.
When the price difference is so high and the performance so close, of course you have a major issue with competition. Let alone the fact this is fully open source.
Most importantly, this is a signal: openAI and META are trying to build a moat using massive hardware investments. Deepseek took the opposite direction and not only does it show that hardware is no moat, it basically makes fool of their multibillion claims. This is massive. If only investors had the brain it takes, we would pop this bubble alread.