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QUINCY, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — A new artificial intelligence app that rocked Wall Street Monday is making waves in the tech world and could take concerns about AI in classrooms to new heights.
DeepSeek, a Chinese tech startup, launched its AI generative tool, DeepSeek-R1, in the U.S. market that has already become a fierce competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
Since its launch in the app store, DeepSeek has skyrocketed to become the most downloaded app, overtaking ChatGPT.
Greg, a software engineer from Quincy, told WBZ NewsRadio that he is not surprised ChatGPT is being overtaken.
“It’s kind of an arms race,” he said. “Every time a new LLM comes out, a large language model, there will be another system that comes out to detect specific features of that one.”
The NASDAQ and S&P 500 indices both fell Monday, with the NASDAQ plummeting nearly 3% and the S&P dropping about 1.5%.
With DeepSeek reportedly performing on par with rival OpenAI, educators are already grappling with how to regulate this technology, noticing that students are using more AI in school work.
“One of my friends [got] caught using ChatGPT once,” Quincy High’s Jana said. “He [kind of] failed the assignment.”
In another case back in Oct., parents of a Hingham High School student sued the teachers and administrators for failing their child for using AI on a project, citing the school’s handbook does not include any AI policies. According to the Patriot Ledger, this case remains pending in Massachusetts district court.
Another Quincy high student, Lauren, said one of her teachers combats this by staying old-school, with “strictly [writing with] on pen and paper.”
WBZ NewsRadio's Jim MacKay (@JimMacKayOnAir) reports
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