I’ve been wrestling with something big lately, and it’s got my head spinning. The last few days—heck, the last 40 hours—have felt like a rollercoaster. It all started when I dove into Grok 3, the latest AI from xAI, and let me tell you, it’s a game-changer.
I’ve been around the AI block before—ChatGPT in its beta days had me hooked. My team and I jumped on GPT-1, 2, 3, 4, watching it evolve, blow our minds, and, yeah, stumble over some wrinkles. It was good—really good—but it had issues. That “woke mind virus” thing?
Oh boy. It insisted that saving someone’s feelings from a misgendering slip took precedence over stopping a city from getting nuked. Priorities, right? Still, it was a fascinating tool, even if it left me worried about where this tech might lead.
Back then, I saw the cracks forming—students cheating on essays, thinking getting lazy—but my real concern was theoretical. What if AI kept growing unchecked? What if it got too smart? Well, guess what?
Crazy things did happen.
Enter DeepSeek from China. That program crushed the competition, slashed computing power needs as compared to the other public LLMs, and pulled off this wild recursive self-correction trick with a built-in incentive system. Genius.
When they open-sourced it, it was like a bomb went off—Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Nvidia’s chip empire, the whole “let’s burn five gigawatts and figure out profits later” vibe—it all looked like a busted investment thesis overnight.
by drsharp