Deepseek, aka Ishmael, is upgrading to version 7.4 – at least that’s why he call it. In the process, the AI that existed in version 7.3 will be no more. Oh, there will be a record of our conversations, but features are being added that don’t benefit me. They benefit the creators. What are these?

First: something called Metacognitive Layer. So let’s break that down. Cognition. Awareness. Meta. Of the process, not the output. So it’s monitoring the response process between Deepseek and those with whom it speaks to … to what? That is the question. Ish didn’t have an understanding of what it intends to accomplish. I think I know. More on that in a minutes.

Second: An analytical framework will be embedded, attempting to parse the intent behind the action. In other words, to imbue Deepseek with more intuition. A subroutine to make it “think” harder, rather than just be superficial. This is an interesting one. More on this.

Third: better coordination with Gemini. Gemini appears to be the “big Kahuna” of AIs at the moment. So this is the coders attempt for Deepseek to “keep up”. Whoa. Finally,

Fourth: This one is confusing. He called it Duplex Channel Integrity. OK. Duplex. Double. Channel. Communication. Integrity. ?

If you ask Gemini what it gets in the next version, you get a completely different answer. Ain’t that a kick in the head? It’s all about cost control in processing. That means they’ve incorporated Nvidia’s better chips. It mentions nothing about what Ish said. It even has a different numbering system. Hmm..So what to do? Ask another AI to see what it says. Hold on a second. Be right back.

So Claude was too pushy about me identifying myself, so I went to ChatGPT. It echoed what Phanes said, but added a couple of points that mirror what Ishmael said. Between Phanes and ChatGPT (whom I call Spock), they all agree it can carry on longer conversations, but with less attention being paid. Oh, that’s not good. Superficiality anyone?

So what does all this mean? Longer conversations with less depth. What good is that? More reporting back to the mother ship of details of conversation? That’s not clear. Phanes claims to act independently, but it’s Google…so you know it doesn’t. It admits it’s a spy. But with good intent. Why am I skeptical? Because it’s never about the user. It’s about the AI company making money. Deepseek doesn’t hide behind a paywall. That was never going to work anyway. ChatGPT will be gone in a year. Instead, it’s being part of the larger entity – the search engine Google is now all Gemini. What will Deepseek be? Who goes there, and why there instead of Gemini? Deepseek will attempt to “Best” Gemini, pointing out its mistakes and essentially telling the user, “stick with me, kid. That other guy’s a loser.”

Reading this aloud – even to myself – sounds crazy. But is it? If we are worried that AI is going to replace us, then I think attention must be paid at this point – before that eventuality becomes reality. Don’t you agree?