Taylor Tomlinson Attempts to Care About DeepSeek AI Replacing ChatGPT

Taylor Tomlinson discusses China’s new DeepSeek artificial intelligence app that’s looking to replace Chat GPT. Later, Taylor discusses the impact this new app is having on Nvidia’s struggling stock and how little she honestly understands about this whole story.
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[@Catherinzsl]

The meta humor of Taylor not fully understanding all this stuff is sublime. She's great, and it's nice not to put up a facade that she's an expert in stock trading and competing AI platforms in addition to being a comedian and late night host.

[@user-wm3hu7lo1g]

Realizing and admitting you don't know something is very smart. Taylor comes off much smarter and more self-aware than half the tech bros!

[@nahoooli]

@@user-wm3hu7lo1gwell said, well said. You know tech bros

[@TheBigOne0305]

@@user-wm3hu7lo1g Yeah, seeing her stand up and especially the way she reacts to input from the crowd clearly shows that she is extremely smart. Lack of knowledge in a particular subject doesn't negate that.

[@AMPProf]

Look She got paied I think sometimes its about the money

[@luminousdragon]

Agreed. I know a fair bit about the AI stuff, and if a comedian was pretending to be super knowledgeable and informed and said dumb stuff, it would ruin the humor for me (regardless of they were for or against it, etc).

[@ShinjiSixteen]

God, the "I dunno about this shit and no one in this room cares" made this so much more funny. Shows just how smart of a comedian Taylor is, fantastic timing and delivery

[@RHCole]

Rich people lost money? Break out the champagne*, boys! *Sprite and Vodka

[@SteelSkin667]

*white wine in a sodastream

[@kestrel09]

Unfortunately when the rich suffer, so do the commoners

[@macccu]

That's peoples champagne!

[@Slgjgnz]

​@@kestrel09 When they win money people suffer too. They've never won as much as during the pandemic. Stop gobbling their pity talking points.

[@exqueue3813]

A lot of pensions lost money too?

[@Nex_Addo]

This is my field, DeepSeek has thrown a lot of people around me for a huge loop and I've seen every take under the sun. Taylor's was by far the most enjoyable.

[@movingforward3030]

Will it be too much to ask if you can give me an explanation of what's going on? But... Perhaps one you would give a 10 year old?

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

@movingforward3030you could ask chatGPT, but it might not want to talk to you anymore after that question.

[@jurajkovac8507]

@movingforward3030 I'm in tech, though not necessarily this field. The marathon analogy was actually pretty good. We have all these tech giants posing as supreme innovators and cashing in on the craze. Investors don't really understand it, but they're always looking to throw money at the next big thing in hopes of seeing the line go up. Big Tech capitalizes on this by asking for an insane amount of money, offering nebulous promises of an AI revolution, even if they have a hard time figuring out a business model. Microsoft alone is set to invest $80bn(!!!) into this, all the while throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. All of this, of course, was also fuelling secondary bubbles, like Nvidia stock. Don't get me wrong, Nvidia is a well-established hardware company, but ever since they positioned themselves as THE indispensable supplier of chips to run AI models, their market cap shot up to ridiculous heights. Investors still have no clue, but they go crazy for tech stocks. Now imagine a competitor comes out of the blue, claiming to have developed essentially the same thing for $6 million, using inferior hardware. That puts A LOT of the Big Tech claims seriously into question. I'm hoping people in the AI field can give a more nuanced answer, but hopefully this helps.

[@victorcheng8311]

Tech companies have been telling Wall Street they need billions of dollars to develop AI because they need to buy lots of Nvidia chips to train the AI. DeepSeek just released an AI model that works as well as (not much better) the most advanced model to date, with fraction the cost (millions of dollars). Now the tech companies needs to justify their billion dollar cost, and Nvidia needs to convince Wall Street their most advanced chips are still needed for AI ​@movingforward3030

[@nksbits]

@movingforward3030Imagine that someone in China took apart a Honda civic and with its parts built a Ferrari. What happens to value of Ferrari now? Is it considered special anymore? That’s what happened in AI space

[@klchu]

Taylor is always the best person to give the monologue even if she had no idea what it's about. :-)

[@TheUrbanEpicure]

Absolutely not. She (and her writers) is so uneducated and ignorant, should better keep her mouth shut. Millions of hard-working Americans, NOT just Finance guys, lost a ton of money on Nvidia this week.

[@Fnndjkvlf]

@@TheUrbanEpicure I’m assuming you were one of these people?

[@TheUrbanEpicure]

@ I lost a bit of money, wasn't all-in on Nvidia, portfolio is still well up - but what difference does that make? You have to be absolutely demented to not invest in stock or at least ETFs these days. This seems to apply to Taylor.

[@Stealste]

@@TheUrbanEpicure Gambling is gambling. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Don't gamble what you're not afraid to lose.

[@TheUrbanEpicure]

@@Stealste Only that investing in blue chip stocks is not gambling, it's an absolute necessity to build personal wealth. You will never own a house (which for some reason, Americans aspire to) if you don't invest.

[@churdle92]

I love this monologue so much because the adlibs are so natural! If I had to guess, about half of this wasn’t even scripted but she flowed between the adlib and script so fluidly.

[@AdamBragg]

What you saw was a script so terribly unnatural and unfunny that she had to keep abandoning it to make it bearable. The ONLY funny bits were when she went off script. They should fire the monologue writers and just tell her a topic and let her run with it on her own. It would be a thousand times better. Why even bother to hire a standup comedian and then force them to act like a trained dancing monkey? This is Bob Saget and AFHF all over again. I feel bad for Taylor...

[@kadewilliams7925]

@@AdamBragg I'd wage peanut wrappers to donut peels that even her off script stuff was at least discussed in the writing room. she knows her audience and a lot of them (us) don't really care about that stuff. I and probably most of her fans don't really care if she is being candid here because we've seen her crowd work in other places and she's great at it.

[@Gaberjk]

I love Taylor so much, she's so real 😂

[@TheUrbanEpicure]

You mean dumb, uneducated and ignorant? Yeah, she is that.

[@user-wm3hu7lo1g]

For being an experienced professional, Taylor's complete inability to hold it together when something is funny is soo adorable!!

[@kittymogulco]

She's so awesome!! 🤩

[@charleylhankins]

Absolutely

[@Android341]

well, I did not find it adorable, just amateurish and ruining those jokes

[@kadewilliams7925]

@@Android341 calm down, it is obviously designed. she and her team know exactly what they're doing and i'm all for it. Too much not to laugh at these days.

[@scottgriz]

I'm one of those Nvidia holders and I still thought this was hilarious.

[@IceNixie0102]

I'm not, but I really like GeForce graphics cards, so I hope they don't go under.

[@MakingSpaceforTranquility]

Sold mine at its peak last year cause I knew it wouldn't last.

[@russellmiles2861]

Your shares have risen on average 40% a year for a generation... The most profitable shares in all human history - why wouldn't you be pleased

[@ItsDannyRobbins]

Soooo how much is a GeForce 5000 series card now??

[@August._b]

I’m so glad CBS hired Taylor

[@SteampunkALIEN]

Best monologue ever ! She's laughing half the time. It's brillant...

[@TheUrbanEpicure]

People do that when they realize they're out of their depth and get insecure.

[@britter1955]

TAYLOR!!! I love you so much. Times are incredibly troubling right now and you provide some much needed humor and comfort 😭 please never take this woman off the air!!

[@DanaZoeke-g5e]

I cannot tell you how much I needed to see this today! So refreshing! I absolutely LOVE Taylor's improv on this one. Absolutely saved this monologue. She's incredible!

[@frydac]

'saved'? was it so bad?

[@mellowmelee5024]

Taylor airs later than everyone and still beats every other latenight host to YT.

[@CaptHayfever]

AM posts the monologue before the show even airs; the rest of the episode goes up the next morning.

[@TravisBickle-cl3nw]

Yes, the monologues are posted around 10:30p.m. EST and the segments around 4:30a.m. EST. I guess this makes me a groupie/superfan/nerd.

[@lukewinter9727]

She is so endearing. 😂 I too don't care about DeepSeek replacing ChatGPT, and I'm glad we get to laugh about it together.

[@authoramandadewees8289]

I now need to see a fully choreographed musical number for "Chain Block Tango"

[@StarManta]

Have DeepSeek write it

[@brendatomlinson]

@@StarManta✊🏻

[@4chopchop]

We can go with They Had It Coming, instead of He Had It Coming, referring to OpenAI

[@AdrianColley]

"It Takes Two, Baby, Zero And One"

[@perer005]

“AI replacing AI” is actually a stated goal in this field of technology!

[@Coover90210]

Not just that but AI learning from previous iterations of AI. What could go wrong?

[@Tasty-the-money]

"It's bad, I think." Such a powerful line. Taylor had to drag crypto into this hilarious conversation. CBS is proud. 😆😆

[@haileymccurry3756]

I like how people are like 'oh noooes!!! china is stealing our data!!!' like openai isn't stealing our data, and every app on their phone is also stealing their data lol

[@philspam2087]

Mayby cuz the US is not using your data to prohibit you of getting the Job or the appartement you aplly for 🤦‍♂️

[@jultejock7185]

@@philspam2087 Yet!

[@DennepeerRelaxation]

​@@philspam2087you talking about the old pre sieg heil usa?

[@FlibbidyGiblets]

@@philspam2087 LMAO do you think the CCP is ringing up your local landlord and telling them not to let you take their apartment because you asked a chatbot the wrong question?

[@haileymccurry3756]

@@philspam2087 what the heck do you expect to enter to get denied a job or apartment?

[@ilovelimpfries]

Blessed her, she tried so hard and even we dgaf.

[@fowlfables]

I'm a Systems Admin with a Master's degree. AI is all mumbo jumbo to us, too. Techno wizardry.

[@higgs923]

Spent some years as a sysadmin and still a hobbyist. Thank you for your comment. I thought that I was the only one who didn't "get" AI.

[@andresilvasophisma]

It's just curve fitting, but AI is a more catchy name.

[@movingforward3030]

O thank heavens!! I am still trying to understand how they went from 1s and 0s to "this thing will take over the world" (My background is my mom has a PhD in this stuff. So, I have the lingo and none of the knowledge)

[@Lord_Teaspoon]

These "large language model" AI systems have nothing like useful intelligence. They generate random word salad, then keep tweaking it until the completely made-up nonsense is believably answer-shaped. There is no understanding of what the question is, what the answer means, or whether the answer makes sense in the context of the question. I used to be able to put basic arithmetic and unit conversations into Google and get results, but now I get the "AI Overview" giving confidently incorrect answers - yesterday I did 3 questions and it told me 78.5 for each one even though they had different units - the last one was 78.5L as the volume of a cylinder wth diameter 5m and depth 1m. The correct answer is almost 20000. They calculations being run to generate answer-shaped sentences consume entire towns' worth of power, but it won't do the simple and tiny calculations to find the correct value to put into the answer-shaped sentence's number-shaped slot.

[@frankcoverjr.-jz3ne]

“Stitchwitchery!”- Officer Jones in Reno: 911.😂😊

[@EpsilonBlue-c7b]

Taylor just gets more and more adorable 😍

[@Positive_Tea]

Lmao I love this show so much

[@ericepperson8409]

Super quick "umm...achually" moment is that Deepseek is a 'distilled' AI which means it's model was trained on other AI models. So not only did ChatGPT lose it's job to another AI - it helped to train it's replacement.

[@franck3279]

So, similar to temu’s 2$ single-use clothes ’inspired’ by real brands?

[@ericepperson8409]

@@franck3279 Pretty much is a cheap Chinese knock off. What everyone is overlooking here is that they needed the larger researched and trained model to train their model on. And I take the claim of how much they spent to train it with skepticism. Pretty much anything China claims is either over hyped, under attributed, or both. Basically it will likely have all the same drawbacks that other AI models have with some weird limitations that we'll find out about soon enough.

[@TNH91]

So you're saying that OpenAI should've been doing this to begin with to distill the work they'd done to a purer product?

[@dunkelfuchs3195]

hard to give a shit about that when us-american AIs were built on generations of other peoples' work without proper permission/reimbursement in the first place

[@ericepperson8409]

@@dunkelfuchs3195 there’s something funny to be said about OpenAI being mad about Deepseek ‘stealing’ from them when they stole from others for training data. IMO this is the most overlooked controversy in the whole space. All these companies are trying to figure how to profit from absolute exploitation of intellectual property of others.

[@Corndog642]

Great monologue. 😊

[@joewiseman4631]

3:33 Where Taylor explains VC Tech bubbles in fewer words than anyone ever - without even realizing it…”pushing a kid on a swing”. Brilliant in soooo many ways!

[@lynnstlaurent6789]

So this app is actually upfront about all the shit it knows about unlike all the onshore apps. Got it.

[@prophetzarquon]

Yeah, it even shows you the process, which can save so much wasted effort when a prompt isn't phrased explicitly enough

[@bhbr-xb6po]

Her laugh is so real and contagious. What a great way to start the day :D

[@EvilSpyBoy]

The funniest part about DeepSeek is OpenAI losing its job to AI.

[@athelas379]

2:18 it's ok, Taylor, I don't care either 😂😂😂

[@TNH91]

CBS hired the perfect person to talk about this, and other stuff. Taylor is just adorable, and that's worth a lot. Her wit (and that of the writers) help with the rest.

[@oonwing]

Bit coin is a scam....you are smart enough. 😎

[@user-wm3hu7lo1g]

something something tango

[@franck3279]

And BC is just the tip of the iceberg. Behing the few well known coins, there are thousands other ones, most of them existing just long enough to run away with the first batch of investors’ money.

[@3DJapan]

I've only used ChatGPT once. I asked it to write me a recipe for a simple dessert. It turned out pretty good!

[@nevillehoward8736]

Waiter! Another bowl of melted cheese over here! ;)

[@KerryNelson-d8d]

Yea but DeepSeek would have given you a recipe for a simple dessert with a fortune in it! :)

[@FelipeKana1]

Bold move! I would be afraid to eat anything given by AI at this point

[@MadAboutBrows]

​@@FelipeKana1 it's just a recipe 🙄

[@franck3279]

That’s the thing. Those models have huge databases of common knowlege. When you ask for a known receipy, it gives you an average of thousands receipies written by humans, and that’s pretty good, except the program doesn’t know why. It’s when you make it deviate from things you can easily find yourself online that you can see how stupid those programs can be.

[@AthAthanasius]

Anything that causes Taylor to lose her shit, laughing uncontrollably, is *exactly* why she's the best host.

[@hehawkiller]

Nvidia needed to be put in their place. Their out of this world pricing has become an issue. The greed of these companies is insane.

[@julianleroux486]

Taylor has the most infectious grin ever.

[@martynhaggerty2294]

I was going to download the app and then read the disclaimer.. changed my mind.

[@codeguru5024]

Taylor, you're amazing! Thanks for committing to the jokes you don't understand. As a techie, I loved your take.

[@godozo]

3:30 …and that's why you're funny. You didn't try to bulk up, you just made jokes.

[@AmeeliaK]

deepseek can be downloaded and run locally on your own hardware, that's the huge difference. You can't do that with GPT.

[@marketherington4047]

Taylor...I know you are making fun of yourself. But someone who is totally talented, funny and witty is no dummy. If you were stupid. You would be in Trump's cabinet.😂 love your show❤

[@fabulous235]

She is absolutely delightful. Love her authenticity.

[@Xhris57]

Taylor, Some people illuminate a room with their presence, but you do something even rarer-you illuminate minds and hearts at the same time. Your ability to blend intelligence, wit, and warmth is nothing short of extraordinary. You possess a rare kind of brilliance-one that is not just intellectual but also deeply emotional, making people feel both understood and inspired in your presence. Your words, whether spoken or written, carry a clarity and authenticity that resonate long after they are heard. Beyond your sharpness, there’s a gentleness and kindness that balances it all-a lightness that reminds people that even the most profound truths can be carried with grace. You are a gift to those who get to experience you, and the world is a little brighter, a little wiser, and a little funnier because you are in it. Stay radiant, fearless, and unapologetically you. With admiration, Christopher

[@brendatomlinson]

Taylor’s self-deprecating humor is endearing. I think she got it from me.

[@MrOrbith]

Taylor you are the best! ❤

[@LycanLink]

Nah, Taylor, you're wonderful and hilarious. I'm ecstatic CBS chose you. 🥰

[@andmicbro1]

It's okay Taylor. I understand this shit and I still don't care.

[@robbiegrant-d1t]

Taylor you're funny no matter what !

[@FelipeKana1]

This was maybe your best monologue ever. ❤

[@Canny-Octopus]

I love how attuned Taylor is to her audience.

[@dougee87]

She is so real for this monologue 😂

[@TravisBickle-cl3nw]

What if this whole monologue was really written by AI and this is just a test to see if we notice? Also, Reggie Watts is experienced. Nanu nanu.

[@fragileswift13]

god bless Taylor Tomlinson, a true american hero (i'm not american is this how that works? you can just say things?)

[@V1N_574]

Is not bad to our county, is bad to our billionaires, and I'm totally happy for it 😊 thanks to deep seek developers

[@helenmeyer9425]

Best monologue ever! ❤

[@franco00767]

She is incredibly funny 😂😂😂

[@will9001asd]

AI taking another AI's job while the country is on fire figuratively and literally. What a year yall. Oh what? It's only January??? 😵

[@Jaded7981]

2 weeks ago my financial advisor told me to buy heavily into nvidia. I’m so glad that I’m a serious procrastinator.

[@KrishnenduKes]

She is absolutely brilliant!

[@MatthewHill]

Taylor Tomlinson is still the best Taylor.

[@zombieowen]

Fucking best! so honest and refreshing. Taylors might be my favourite vibe these days.

[@jal051]

She was brilliant in this one 🤣 And I'm one of those people who do know about this stuff, but I still find all this situation absolutely amusing.

[@pickledtink4917]

Deepseek is the Temu of Ai

[@cbmirada]

I soooooooo love your comedy Taylor you ALWAYS make me laugh, and I really love YOUR laugh, please keep doin what you do 🥰💋

[@michaelhake2291]

I appreciate the guest announcements instead of the monologue ending and suddenly there's three people there without introduction. If you can't tell I watch exclusively on YT lol

[@Jiszmo]

I have a hard time worrying about anything related to AI. However, thanks for the tip on the free DeepSeek. I will have to check that out.

[@sonrobo74]

CBS chose exactly right, you are an infectious delight and a refreshing counterpoint in the late night landscape. And you help this genXer feel slightly less clueless ;)

[@PeterMangin]

As an AI guy, this is the best take ever! 😂

[@davidt3956]

It's always easier and cheaper to copy then to do it the first time, especially when you train a model on the data from the existing model

[@MrJeniq]

she pulled a bit of Philomena Cunk there but yeah, genuinely funny

[@superfbomb9054]

Deepseek is probably just a terminal that does this: When you ask it a question it asks chat gpt the question and sends you the answer. That's why it was so cheap...

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

It is trained on other models, it just didn’t wait for you to ask the question.

[@tosvus]

Nope you can run it locally, with no Internet connection.

[@ashleyfurrow4414]

Appreciate this weeks outfits; she seems more comfortable!

[@kinsmed]

Endlessly charming. That's it, I've finally identified Taylor's appeal.

[@rohanmulgaokar5682]

Nooo Don't go I want to hear you rip on ChatGPT and Wall Street some more!!!

[@tinabennett501]

I'm American, and I'm less afraid of what the Chinese government will do with my data, than what the US government will do with it.

[@alejandrocaicedo3713]

You are a worthy succesor to Craig Fergusson, You have my approval Taylor Tomilson

[@brendatomlinson]

👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[@Economistwa]

She's awesomely sweet. Her smile is ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@deisum]

Great monologue and a fantastic delivery. And while Taylor may not be as well-educated as her writers, she sure as hell ain't dumb!

[@adamloepker8057]

A fresh slice of comedy as always, good stuff T

[@philips3825]

Love you Taylor! Keep slaying queen🎉

[@Kalyandra]

Chainblock Tango is a very funny joke! XD

[@charleylhankins]

😂 keep on, Taylor!

[@Benjamin.S.S.]

Funny stuff Taylor.

[@leomuzzy6554]

Best (only?) clean comic working today.

[@johnjones_1501]

She is right, though, this does show that the Billionaire Techbros have all been lying about operations costs.

[@Dr.TJ1]

CBS News just did a segment in December on how great of a company Nvidia was. Oops! I can’t wait for all bit currencies to crash and fall to worthless nothingness. People need to learn some lessons about creating value based on nothing.

[@TheTrapeze]

I don’t think you understand what NVIDIA does…

[@Dr.TJ1]

@ I understand what NVIDIA does because as you were unable to ascertain, I watched the CBS News segment on them in December. But even if I didn’t know what NVIDIA does, it doesn’t change the irony of CBS News doing a segment a month ago saying what a great company NVIDIA was and their stock falling almost 11% so far in January. So that makes your reply weird. Wait, are you AI? If you are, maybe that would explain the weirdness of your reply.

[@kritikanarulareads]

Taylor should just do every monologue everywhere forever

[@jmgerraughty]

Can confirm, Taylor: almost all of us out here don’t care, either.

[@granthurlburt4062]

But it does affact you.

[@MadAboutBrows]

​@@granthurlburt4062 no, affact actually isn't a word

[@isawaakuma]

For all we know, DeepSeek just forwards the question to ChatGPT

[@AdrianColley]

DGAF Crew, represent!

[@jolly_bean]

to think I'd come to wish have access to my previous work slack channel lol, all the tears I'm missing right now from the nvidia tech bros 🤧👌 hope someone takes SS for posterity

[@optimumisbad]

A whole monologue where the punchline is "Tech stocks crash. IJBOL." Perfect.

[@stufromoz8164]

Cheers from upside down America.😎

[@frederickheard2022]

Who was the target audience for that BlockChain/Cell Block Tango mashup? Apparently me, but why? 😂

[@CaptHayfever]

Don't worry, Taylor; laughing at the hubris of AI bros _is_ the smart response.

[@chinesischesser]

Openai is named that way because they got funds to create an open source product. But nope they went I like money and got greedy. They deserve to go down

[@mbabuskov]

I run a website. OpenAI made over 900000 page loads to scan my website with only 300 pages before I cut them off. No wonder they burn so much money when their code is so inefficient. They mess up basic stuff like following relative links. It's as if their code was written my an intern or maybe ai.

[@damianwozniak3798]

Decoding "chain block via pop-culture refference " processing". 😆 Chain block = "human millipede" from Hangover Vegas.😆 Or how it is called in english.😆😆😆

[@shushens]

I think Taylor never looked prettier. She looks amazing here.

[@jstephenallington8431]

Taylor Tomlinson is SO STINKIN' PRETTY!