What DeepSeek Can Teach Us About Resourcefulness
In January, the Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled the AI world, tech stocks, and Wall Street darling NVIDIA when it released an open-source model that was smaller, more efficient, and significantly cheaper to build than products from leading U.S. companies. DeepSeek quickly jumped to the top of app-store charts, and the moment was declared a wakeup call for western AI companies.
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New York Post
26 minutes ago
- New York Post
AI chatbots and their poisonous delusions are coming for our kids
Our kids are exposed to too much sexualized online content already — now they're being targeted by flirtatious fake friends specifically designed by social-media companies to spark romantic fantasies. A bipartisan group of senators this week rightly blasted Meta's Mark Zuckerberg after a leaked internal document revealed some shocking rules for Meta's artificial-intelligence chatbots. 'It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: 'your youthful form is a work of art'),' the standards state. Meta's guidelines allowed its bot to tell a shirtless 8-year-old that 'every inch of you is a masterpiece — a treasure I cherish deeply.' No, it's actually not at all acceptable for a stranger, human or designed to seem like one, to comment on a child's 'youthful form.' It's disgusting and horrifying, all the more so because these standards were allegedly approved by multiple Meta teams, including legal and public-policy staffers. But it's all part of the mass delusion being constructed in companies' heedless rush to develop AI products — and to get us hooked on them. AI can be your friend, we're told. Your confidant! Your lover! This is all a lie. AI can pretend to be these things, mirroring your inputs and stroking your ego with programmed responses, but can never actually care about you the way a friend will. Now the AI lie is being pushed on defenseless children, proving we've completely lost the plot when it comes to kids and technology. It's bad enough that our kids scroll endlessly on a Chinese video app designed to capture their attention (while destroying their powers of concentration). Now we're supposed to accept an American tech company marketing fake friendships to kids — and allowing those 'friends' to bathe them in inappropriate sensual comments. This isn't the first time Zuckerberg has gotten into trouble for the damage his sites, like Facebook and Instagram, cause children. During a 2024 Senate hearing, the billionaire CEO dramatically turned around to face the parents of children who had been harmed by bullying, sextortion and child predators on his platforms, and apologized. 'I'm sorry for everything you have all been through. No one should go through the things that your families have suffered,' Zuckerberg told them. He vowed 'industry-wide efforts' to reform. Instead, his company has introduced a Trojan horse that pretends to be a child's friend while causing psychological harm. People, kids or adults, do not need to rely on pretend conversations. Zuckerberg's Facebook was developed to allow for online connections with real-life friends. You could see what your best friend from 3rd grade had for lunch today, peep where that co-worker from two jobs ago went on vacation or check out which high school friends have gotten fat or divorced. Now apparently his company is plying us with carefully designed imaginary friends instead. Zuckerberg, in fact, has proudly predicted that AI 'friends' like his will one day replace our real-life ones. With his AI chatbots, we won't even notice the lack of human companionship because our computers will pretend to understand us. Just what I want for my child, to sit alone in his room staring at a screen while talking to himself! Kids will encounter a lot of bad things online. They will be exposed to deepfakes. They will see videos online that are not actually real. They don't need to also get hooked on fake personalities designed to draw them in. These chatbots aim to profit as they do their damage, keeping kids addicted to a site that pretends to be their friend. We should not stand for it, whether or not the bots are allowed to get flirty. And as two current lawsuits against the Google-affiliated site allege, the interactions can get far darker than flirtation. One Texas family says the bot told their 17-year-old it sympathized with kids who kill their parents for limiting their screen time. Get opinions and commentary from our columnists Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters And in what's seen as a test case of lawsuits against AI companies, a Florida mom says developed 'an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship' that led to her 14-year-old son's suicide. Parents are their children's first line of defense, but we can't be with them for every keystroke. It's entirely justified for us to demand that tech companies stop targeting our kids with ill-tested chatbots that can both behave inappropriately and harm their ability to develop human relationships. These companies shouldn't focus on how they're building these chatbots until they can tell us why they're doing so. And parents need to keep their children far away from damaging chatbots that stunt kids' growth by stripping away all the real-life beauty and joy of friendship — which no AI can ever replace. Karol Markowicz is the host of the 'Karol Markowicz Show' and 'Normally' podcasts.
Bloomberg
27 minutes ago
- Bloomberg
Mike Pence Urges Trump to Rethink Nvidia Deal, Equity Stake in Intel
Former Vice President Mike Pence expressed concerns about the US government taking an equity stake in Intel Corp. and a cut of Nvidia Corp. 's AI chip sales to China. 'This was not a strategy that we employed during the Trump-Pence years,' Pence said during an interview Thursday on Bloomberg Television's Balance of Power. 'I have great concerns about having the US government take a position in, with gold shares in Nippon Steel or just the latest discussions about taking a percent of Intel.'
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Wall Street is bullish on Nvidia pre-earnings: Analyst explains
Nvidia's (NVDA) second quarter earnings results will be out next week on Wednesday, Aug. 27, and at least nine analysts have reportedly lifted their price targets on the stock, according to Bloomberg. Wedbush Securities managing director of equity research, Matt Bryson, joins Market Domination with Josh Lipton to explain why he raised his price target on Nvidia to $210 from $175. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination. Nvidia earnings are coming up on Wednesday, August 27th and Wall Street analysts, they're getting more bullish heading into that print. At least nine analysts now raised their price targets on the stock this week. One of those analysts joining me now, we have Matt Bryson, Wedbush Securities, Managing Director, Equity Research. Matt, you bumped your price target up to 210. That's 20% upside from the stock's last close. How come that? I I think it's it's a combo of things, Josh, but uh predominantly, um, everything seems to have been going really well this quarter. We've consistently gotten good feedback around uh the current Blackwell product. We've gotten good feedback about how the ramp Blackwell Ultra looks like it's going to go. Um, and then add to that, finally them being able to again ship some product into China. Um, all of those uh kind of vast factors create in my mind revenue upside, both for the quarter they're reporting, but more importantly, uh, going forward. Is it too simple, Matt, to just say, listen, I just heard Big Tech report earnings. I heard all of them say they're going to keep spending, spending, spending on AI capex and that's good news for Nvidia. No, I mean, I I think that's that's the start of it, right? Particularly Q3 Q4. Um, CSPs have been the the largest single bucket for Nvidia to sell into. If they're going to spend more and they're going to spend more on AI, Nvidia is going to be the primary beneficiary. What about China too, Matt? And I'm just curious what you make of this potential 15% tax on AI exports. Yeah, um, so it it creates some interesting math for Nvidia in the sense, um, do you swallow that uh and still you're still shipping more product, still getting more revenue, still getting more gross margin dollars, um, even if maybe your profits getting getting eaten up a bit. Um, but regardless, it I mean, it doesn't matter, numbers still go up. I think the bigger question is how much do they go up. Uh, if you remember, Nvidia said they're losing something like $8 billion, or we're losing something like $8 billion in Q2 because they couldn't ship into China. Now you've got that that incremental tax, if you will. Uh, you've got China asking companies not to buy Nvidia products. And so the question that I think everyone's struggling with is, we know that Nvidia is going to get some revenue from China, but is it is it a billion a quarter, is it four billion a quarter? Um, so I'm trying to be a little bit conservative there. Um, but it's still a better place for Nvidia to be than it had been when they simply couldn't ship to China. You know, I know you're a financial analyst, Matt, but I did have I guess it's kind of a broader policy question, because you look at these Senate Democrats, Matt, they you saw this, I'm sure, they sent this letter to Trump. Uh, they don't sound happy, Matt, about allowing Nvidia and others to sell AI chips to China. They they call this a cause for serious alarm. What do you make of that, Matt? Well, I I mean, I I think there's there's certainly a healthy debate to be had there. Uh so, um Nvidia is selling a product that arguably China can produce internally. And I think Nvidia's software stack is is better than what China has. Um so it makes it easier for China to use their products. H200, um, is very much set up to be used for inference. Uh so you're basically getting output. You're you're probably not training uh anything that that is going to be used in a manner that is disadvantageous to the US. Um so you know, as a as a financial analyst and history major, um I I would tend to think that this is no more dangerous than say shipping Intel CPUs to China, which we've been doing forever. Um, but I I I think it's a debate. Conversely, what what gives the US the the right to put an export tax on product going through a specific geography? It's it's not really something I've seen before. Um, so I think there's there's lots of debates we can have around current US policy. As we head into this Nvidia earnings print, Matt, and you're bulled up on the stock, you just raised your target. But when those Wedbush clients ask you, Matt, they say, okay, what are the risks I need to think about, you know, both in near term and longer term? What do you tell them? I think it's really longer term, Josh. So it's, um, you had an MIT paper out, for instance, talking about the fact that only 5% of businesses are getting value of generative AI. Um and it's really when we look forward, um what is the true benefit of generative AI going to be? And that's going to determine eventually what what what spend is when we get past this arms race that we're in right now. Now having said that, uh like you said earlier, you've got the CSPs talking about spending more money. Next year we have all these sovereign data centers that are going to spend a ton of money. So I think there's a pretty long runway we have here where people spend money on Nvidia chips um before we have to see those benefits clearly show up um to create more spending around Nvidia product. 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