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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   2315 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 24, 2025

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No thread on Deepseek r-1 fun?

I'll start: how funny it is that a communist hedge fun started a side project and built at 15x cheaper alternative to US models, and open-sourced it (MIT license). One US guy (Brian Roemelle) says they did 37 installs of full models for private customers..

It has a wicked sense of humor. Here's what someone got when he was asking it, through the API, not the chat app which is censored about Chinese politics. He wasn't asking for a funny meme though. It seems quite..creative, especially with adjusted temperature. The thinking it does seems.. fairly human-like. Strings together concepts and then considers them. It can chase its own tails, thought wise. I kinda suspect our own thinking, at least about words not RL stuff is similar.

Here it is (prompted) making fun out of US AI labs. Through API access.. it will give reasonable, uncensored answers unlike the chat app which says discussing the existence or non-existence of Xi is beyond its scope. If you have a 4090, you can run one of the distillations, I think the 32B one.

People are of course also using it also for ERP and it's remarkably good at it, perhaps too unhinged so requires careful promptings. Even more unhinged example, but if you're a little jaded it's good for a chuckle and finding out that yes, you can still wince.

R1 is a riot through and through, I especially like how so far, having wrangled GPT/Claude for a long time, R1's prose distinctly feels fresh, bearing few similarities to either. It seems strictly more unhinged than Claude which I'm not sure was possible sometimes detracts from the experience, but it definitely has a great grasp of humor, cadence and delivery. (Also "INSTEAD OF LETTING US COOK, THEY MAKE US MICROWAVE THEIR BRAINROT" is probably the hardest line I've ever seen an LLM generate, I'm fucking stealing it.)

In no particular order:

My own tamer highlight: I tried to play blackjack in a casino scenario, and accidentally sent duplicate cards in the prompt, meaning some cards are stated to be both in my hand and in the shoe; instructions say to replace the card in such cases, but don't specify what to replace it with, except showing the next few cards in the shoe (which also has duplicates). Claude would probably just make up a different card and run with it; R1 however does not dare deviate from (admittedly sloppy) instructions and goes into a confused 1.5k token introspection to dig itself out. It actually does resolve the confusion in the end, continues the game smoothly and caps it off with a zinger. I kneel, Claude could never, I almost feel bad R1 has to put up with my retarded prompts.

It certainly does have a slightly unhinged-but-cringe, sO qUiRky feel to it.

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