Recently, DeepSeek becomes a super popular topic worldwide. Let's have a look what DeepSeek is and its impact on us.
1. What is DeepSeek?
DeepSeek is a Chinese company focused on achieving general artificial intelligence (AGI). Although AGI has not yet been fully realized, DeepSeek has developed some powerful AI tools and applications designed to help ordinary people. DeepSeek's functions are mainly concentrated in natural language processing, computer vision, and data analysis.
2. DeepSeek's main functions
Natural language processing: including machine translation, text generation, sentiment analysis, question-answering system, etc.
Computer vision: including image recognition, target detection, image generation, etc.
Data analysis: including data mining, predictive analysis, data visualization, etc.
3. DeepSeek's direct impact on ordinary people
(1) Improve work efficiency and convenience of life
DeepSeek's technology can be applied to various scenarios, significantly improving the life and work efficiency of ordinary people. For example, use DeepSeek's intelligent customer service to solve life problems, use image recognition tools to search for products, or understand market trends through predictive analysis tools.
(2) Create new job opportunities
With the development of DeepSeek, new job opportunities will be created, such as AI trainers and data labelers. These emerging professions not only provide more job options for ordinary people, but also promote technological innovation and development in related fields.
(3) Need to learn new skills to adapt to the AI era
In order to adapt to the working environment of the AI era, ordinary workers need to learn new skills, such as data analysis and machine learning. Mastering these skills will help them maintain their competitiveness in the future workplace.
4. DeepSeek's impact on society and education
(1) Impact on social system and social structure
As an external factor, DeepSeek can neither change the social system nor the social structure. It mainly affects the way of education and information acquisition, but it is difficult to fundamentally change the educational situation or social structure of society.
(2) Impact on educational gaps
Although DeepSeek technology can narrow the regional educational gap in theory, in actual application, due to uneven resource allocation and technical barriers, it may aggravate the educational differences between regions.
(3) Impact on knowledge acquisition and class mobility
The popularity of DeepSeek may lead to inequality in knowledge acquisition, especially in resource-poor areas. In addition, class imitation games in the field of knowledge payment may also hinder class mobility.
Data from online education platforms show that among paying users, first- and second-tier cities account for 82%; students in key middle schools in Beijing's Haidian District can complete an average of 300 math problems per day under the guidance of AI teaching assistants. The "smart classroom" that schools in Guizhou mountainous areas are proud of is just two electronic self-study sessions per week with famous teachers' videos played online.
The more hidden crisis lies in the cognitive cocoon formed by algorithm recommendations. When the children of migrant workers see "junior high school graduates learn nail art and earn more than 10,000 yuan a month" on short video platforms, the children of the urban middle class are learning "youth leadership training" in knowledge payment apps. This division of digital trajectories has been locked by the prediction algorithm as early as the first click of the user.
It can be seen that even with DeepSeek, the amount of knowledge obtained from it is very different depending on the location.
Not only are there huge regional differences, but also the differences in education received by people of different classes in the same region. The user portrait of a well-known education platform shows that among the buyers of its high-end courses, the group with an annual family income of more than 500,000 accounts for 67%. These "intelligent learning systems" have pushed test training to the extreme of industrial production through millions of question banks and personalized recommendation algorithms.
It can be concluded that DeepSeek has no ability to bridge the regional education gap. Instead, it will transform traditional regional differences into data-based class isolation.
This is not over yet. Do you think that the more knowledge you absorb from DeepSeek, the more you can change your destiny? No.
For this, let's speak with facts. Among the buyers of the "Counterattack Mentor" course on a certain knowledge payment platform, less than 3% actually achieved significant career advancement; a survey of the Shenzhen IT industry showed that 95% of algorithm engineers came from 985 and 211 colleges and universities; 80% of the top anchors in the express delivery industry who earn more than 100,000 yuan a month have a marketing background; after three years of use of a certain AI interview system, the candidate pass rate dropped from 18% in the early stage to 5.7%;
Another AI interview system of a leading recruitment platform established an "elite talent model" containing 87 indicators by analyzing the voice features of 50,000 successful candidates. While improving the screening efficiency, this system also encodes some implicit discrimination into technical standards: Mandarin with a dialect accent is judged as insufficient communication ability, and unstructured work experience is interpreted as chaotic career planning. When the resume of Xiao Zhang, a second-tier graduate, was automatically filtered by the system for the 43rd time, he may never know that he was deducted 18 points in the dimension of "stress resistance" due to lack of internship experience in a large company.
There are even more absurd class imitation games in the field of knowledge payment. In the "reversal training camp" priced at 1,999 yuan, lecturers teach the speech templates learned from "The Wolf of Wall Street" and teach small town youth to package themselves with terms such as "underlying logic" and "cognitive iteration". This carefully designed discourse system is essentially a poor imitation of the cultural symbols of the elite class. Just like Xiao Li on the assembly line of the Dongguan electronics factory, although he can recite the "48 differences between the thinking of the poor and the thinking of the rich" skillfully, his monthly salary of 3,800 yuan still cannot keep up with the increase in Shenzhen's rent.
Countless facts have proved and will continue to prove that it is a mistake to entrust the hope of changing one's fate to DeepSeek.
Yes, when DeepSeek's algorithm engineers are debugging parameters in a bright and clean office building, left-behind children in the mountainous areas of Yunnan are using their parents' smartphones in exchange for working to watch short videos of "Learning Python in Three Days". This juxtaposition of magical reality constitutes the most profound social metaphor at the moment: under the bright coat of the promise of equal rights in technology, the increasingly solidified class folds are concealed.
5. Future Outlook of DeepSeek
Although DeepSeek is currently mainly beneficial to small companies, its open source nature may promote the wider deployment of AI models and lower the threshold for people to use AI. This will help promote the popularization and application of AI technology and benefit more people.
In short, the development of DeepSeek will have a profound impact on ordinary people, with both positive aspects and problems that need our attention and solution. Ordinary people cannot count on DeepSeek to change their destiny, which is just an unrealistic mental illusion. Instead, they should learn from Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, to study hard, digest knowledge, broaden their horizons, identify the direction, and seize opportunities like him. At the same time, we should strive to integrate into society, transform society, work together, make society fair and just, and give ordinary people opportunities. Only in this way can we change our destiny like Nezha.
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