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China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals. (restofworld.org)
submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • DeepSeek is now embedded in a wide range of products and government services in the country.
  • Some officials have warned about overreliance on DeepSeek.
  • Beijing views AI development as a critical driver of economic growth and a strategic pillar in global tech competition.
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

China’s biggest home appliances company, Midea, has launched a series of DeepSeek-enhanced air conditioners. The product is an “understanding friend” who can “catch your thoughts accurately,” according to the company’s product launch video.

This doesn't really sound like a revolutionary use case.

Chinese media have hailed DeepSeek for saving the day in the city of Wuhan. When the police received a report that five stray horses had been wandering around at night, they asked the chatbot for information on nearby horse farms. Officials were able to locate the owner by visiting the farms DeepSeek suggested.

Maybe an LLM query ran faster than doing a search in a map tool, but by how much?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Something tells me that "catch your thoughts accurately" was the real mission all along.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

This doesn't really sound like a revolutionary use case

It's basically the same as a non-LLM voice assistant.

Maybe an LLM query ran faster than doing a search in a map tool, but by how much?

Can't be that much, since someone could pull up the satellite navigation on their phone, to much the same effect these days. At most it saves maybe a minute.