How Does DeepSeek Compare With Other Chatbot AI Tools?

China’s DeepSeek works like other chatbot tools and it has created chaos in the US markets and raised questions about the future of America's AI dominance. The arrival of a previously little-known Chinese tech company has attracted global attention as it created shock on Wall Street with this new AI chatbot.

Just as with OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Google's Gemini, you open the App, or website, and ask it questions about anything, and it does it’s best to give you a response, although DeepSeek is more chatty and it gives long answers and will not give an opinion.

This chatbot often begins its response by saying the topic is "highly subjective”. It wouldn't even commit to saying whether or not it was better than OpenAI's rival Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant ChatGPT, but it did weigh up the pros and cons of both, ChatGPT did exactly the same, and even used very similar language.

ChatGPT and DeepSeek users agree that OpenAI's chatbot still excels in more conversational, or creative output, as well as information relating to news and current events.

However, the consensus is that DeepSeek is superior to ChatGPT for more technical tasks. If you use AI chatbots for logical reasoning, coding, or mathematical equations, you might want to try DeepSeek because you might find its outputs better. For most queries, though, it appears DeepSeek and ChatGPT are on par, roughly giving the same output. DeepSeek AI's performance is on par with industry leaders and is more affordable for users. DeepSeek's paid subscription comes at $0.50 a month, while ChatGPT costs $20.

DeepSeek says it was trained on data up to October 2023, and while the app seems to have access to current information such as today's date, the website version does not.

That is not dissimilar to earlier versions of ChatGPT and is probably a similar attempt at safeguarding, to stop the chatbot spewing out misinformation pumped onto the web in real time. It can be quite fast in its responses, but is currently overstretched by so many people rushing to try it out.

But there is one area in which it is nothing like its US rival, DeepSeek censors itself when it comes to questions about subjects banned in China.

Sometimes it begins a response, which then disappears from the screen and is replaced by "let's talk about something else". One subject DeepSeek won’t discuss is the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square which ended with at least 200 civilians being killed by the Chinese military, according to the Chinese government, however other estimates have said many thousands were killed.

US-developed ChatGPT, by comparison, does not hold back in its answers about Tiananmen Square.

It turns out  that DeepSeek comes with the same issues as any other chatbots regarding accuracy, and although considerably less expensive to use, is similar to the US AI assistants already in use by millions of people.

BBC     |     Mashable     |     Sky News     |     India Today   |   Science Media Centre     |     PC Mag

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