(Dan Tri) - Experts say the DeepSeek tool will create opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses; as well as users getting their own AI solutions; but there are still many challenges.

The recent launch of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence tool has caused a wave of global panic and awakened Western tech giants that pride themselves on being at the forefront of AI.

Many countries have banned the use of this language model due to concerns related to the collection of personal user data.

In Vietnam, artificial intelligence tools are increasingly used by many people to support life and work. Many experts say that we need to welcome new artificial intelligence tools like DeepSeek, but also be cautious when using them.

DeepSeek: Opportunities but also challenges in Vietnam

Talking to Dan Tri newspaper reporters, Mr. Le Si Hoang, Director of Operations of the International Manufacturing Center, SmartDev Technology Company, said: "DeepSeek has proven to Western countries about China's creative ability in the field of artificial intelligence; especially in the context of the US embargo on access to advanced hardware of semiconductor giant Nvidia - which is an important factor in the development of AI today.

This language model has caught up with American technology companies in the race to develop AI. The difference is that DeepSeek has given the use of a large language model completely free of charge, without any limitations. This will create conditions for businesses and companies to develop their own AI commercial products."

Agreeing with this opinion, Dr. Dao Huu Hung, Department of Computer Science (Keio University, Japan) added: "For AI technology businesses, open source code will create conditions for developers to continue creating smarter AI models and capable of processing larger amounts of data.

This is an opportunity for users, companies, and small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam to build their own solutions related to artificial intelligence at low prices."

It can be seen that with DeepSeek, small and medium-sized businesses can use AI technology to improve operational efficiency, optimize processes and create new products and services with limited funding.

"The special feature of DeepSeek is that businesses can proactively customize and develop AI applications to suit specific and practical needs in the Vietnamese market. In particular, it helps promote creativity and innovation in the field of AI because Vietnam is a very famous country for creativity.

This tool also supports diverse and flexible areas such as customer service from chatbots; optimizing production processes, predicting machine errors, managing warehouses or creating advertising content, analyzing customer data, personalizing shopping experiences," added Mr. Trinh Quang Thuong, Sales Director, Pama Communications and Informatics Company Limited.

Notably, DeepSeek has a computational cost 30 times cheaper than the OpenAI o1 and o3 models, which will make the cost of large language models cheaper, facilitating bringing AI to everyone.

Besides the development opportunities thanks to DeepSeek, we will also face many challenges when accessing this tool.

According to experts, only when we overcome challenges and barriers can we take advantage of opportunities effectively and successfully.

Opportunities that come to businesses in Vietnam will also exist in other countries around the world; In which there exist countless strong opponents.

Vietnam needs to create values ​​from AI - not just relying on available technology like DeepSeek - to aim for its own real products and services. This is the premise for differentiation and efficiency for AI users, as well as competitiveness and improved commercialization.

"To realize this, Vietnam needs a team of experienced and capable AI experts to develop. The deployment of AI applications based on the MoE model in Vietnam is relatively sparse, so we need to quickly foster and train high-quality human resources to be able to fully exploit the potential of this technology.

Along with that, to effectively optimize DeepSeek in Vietnam, first of all to serve Vietnamese people, we need to Vietnameseize the model such as: Training based on high quality Vietnamese language, culture as well as domestic user behaviors," Mr. Thuong said.

In addition, for AI tools, we always mention factors related to AI ethics and legality, how to protect personal data, and how to avoid being abused by DeepSeek. This is a difficult problem that needs solutions from Vietnamese businesses.

Users should be cautious when receiving information from AI

In fact, many users reported on social networks that DeepSeek provided inaccurate information, especially related to Vietnam's island sovereignty.

Explaining this, Dr. Dao Huu Hung said: "Vietnamese users are familiar with tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini and it is not difficult to realize that there is always a note at the bottom that says: the information given by AI can be mistaken, humans need to verify the information.

First, it is because the data used to train the AI ​​model is not true; Second, the accuracy of AI models can never reach absolute numbers.

"I think DeepSeek also introduced Guardrail technology to prevent users from asking about controversial information. So I think the goal of this tool is to develop AI, not target political goals," Mr. Hung said.

According to Mr. Trinh Quang Thuong, Vietnamese users need to be careful when using AI tools (not just DeepSeek), they should check information carefully from many different sources and should choose reliable and official information sources to make decisions about which information is accurate and suitable for them.

In addition, when using AI tools, we need to clearly understand the context to ask questions accurately according to the user's wishes to avoid bias and confusion between answers, especially factors related to politics, history, and national sovereignty.

No AI tool is absolutely accurate because each person has a different worldview and each country has a different political viewpoint. The important thing is that we receive information and make decisions to exploit that information flow properly.

Experts agree that, even as humans, we often make mistakes, it is difficult for us to expect that machines will not make mistakes like us, especially in the early stages of artificial intelligence development.

The Vietnamese market needs to be ready to receive DeepSeek

According to Mr. Le Si Hoang, many Vietnamese people have used ChatGPT or Google Gemini, so there is no reason why we cannot approach using DeepSeek.

Whether it is an American or Chinese tool, when we approach these models, we need to be alert when using them, such as not disclosing personal, important or confidential information.

Not only Chinese AI companies but also in the US collect information from users, they have to pay themselves to maintain servers to run the program for users to use for free.

Therefore, they collect information for the purpose of improving the model; The thing to note here is that we should use the tool wisely.

DeepSeek is a powerful AI model with many application potentials in many different fields, which can bring great benefits to Vietnamese businesses and users.

Vietnamese businesses will need to radically restructure to change and adapt to the AI ​​era.

In particular, Resolution 57 of the Politburo will promote the development of technologies such as IoT, 5G and strong AI; Therefore, the need to use AI in Vietnam is huge, especially in fields such as finance and banking, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and education.