Deepseek-R1 ‘Open Source’ Chinese AI Interview in English

I absolutely agree that it will be a great productivity enhancer for all kinds of repetitive tasks, especially those where mistakes are easy to catch or not that costly. ML will probably reduce burnout that is inevitable for humans performing those tasks.

It will also be used in all kinds of situations where mistakes are an externality for the company. Eg in customer service, most conversations will probably start with an ML engine, a small percent of which will be escalated to a human agent. The customer at the end of the line will be frustrated at that point, but hey, it’s their problem.

Supervised use, supplementing a human, will also become very widespread (eg in radiology).

I am just skeptical about the AGI claims. But, historically, each wave of AI was sold with AGI, so it is kind of a tradition.