Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
by pegasus on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:14PM
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There's a third possibility, which to me is also the most plausible. Models will keep getting better and better within certain domains, while never catching up with humans when it comes to other type of tasks. Like that elusive quality-without-a-name some have called "taste". Or knowing what UX is most intuitive to humans. Really, anything where we have to tap into our common humanity and our human experience in order to be of help to other humans and generally to life on earth. Which is an all-important skill, since the flowering of life on the earth is (or should be) the whole point of anything we do, after all.
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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
by jacquesm on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:45PM
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We've spent a couple of millennia documenting that elusive thing called 'taste' in word, sound, image, lately in moving images. I'm pretty sure that even if you didn't have taste you could make a good simulation based on all that input.
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
by dugidugout on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:05PM
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I don't know, that sounds like a question of taste. :)
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
by pegasus on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:37AM
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So what you're saying is that since there are so many examples of what humans have preferred in the past for these models to be trained on, surely there will come a time when they will know even better than us what we want and what we like.
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
by gpderetta on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:43AM
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... as long as they still care about what we want and what we like.