China hands America a trillion dollar wake-up call | LBC

China's chatbot Deep Seek has "upended" assumptions the world has about AI, technology experts have told Andrew Marr.

Speaking to Marr on Tuesday, Verity Harding, director of the AI and geopolitics project at Cambridge University, said Deep Seek has demonstrated that complex AI no longer has to require “enormous” amounts of data, energy or computing power.

"[Deep Seek] has been trained and produced to an extremely high standard at a fraction of the cost," Ms Harding said.

Since its launch onto the market this week, Deep Seek has disrupted the titans of the tech world.

It climbed to the top of Apple's download charts, while it wiped around 560 billion pounds from US high tech company stocks — a figure that is twice Britain's social security budget.

While some commentators have labelled this moment technology's version of a "Sputnik moment" — recalling the USSR's entry to the space race — Ms Harding warned against technological progress being driven by patriotism alone.

"Technology is about innovation and it's about making products people want to use that are useful to use," Ms Harding said.

"And frankly, if you're able to make a better product cheaper, then you're not going to be able to persuade someone not to use it based on lofty calls to patriotism."

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