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An evaluation of DeepSeek compared to other AI tools Part four of an eight-part series of blogs
Much has been made in the media of how the new Chinese AI tool DeepSeek rivals almost anything that the likes of ChatGPT can offer. Does it? What this blog covers Getting started with DeepSeek Test 1 - summarising text Test 2 - programming ability (this blog) Test 3 - presenting arguments Test 4 - creating images Test 5 - role-playing Conclusions and recommendations

An evaluation of DeepSeek compared to other AI tools

Part four of an eight-part series of blogs

Much has been made in the media of how the new Chinese AI tool DeepSeek rivals almost anything that the likes of ChatGPT can offer. Does it?

What this blog covers
Getting started with DeepSeek
Test 1 - summarising text
Test 2 - programming ability (this blog)
Test 3 - presenting arguments
Test 4 - creating images
Test 5 - role-playing
Conclusions and recommendations

Posted by Andy Brown on 03 February 2025

Our second test is to see how good DeepSeek is at programming. Here's the prompt:

"You want to write a program to sort the names of the 7 dwarves (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) into random order, and output the names as a comma-delimited list. Every time you run the program it should present the dwarves in a different order. Please create 3 versions of the program (one for Python, one for Visual C# and one for VBA), then conclude by saying which one you think is the best way to solve this problem, and why."

And here was what DeepSeek came up with (I forgot to time this, but it took a similar number of seconds as the other AI tools I'd previously tested, I'd say):

I don't think this stands out in any way. - it's very similar to the answers produced by the other AI tools.

Parts of this blog
What this blog covers Getting started with DeepSeek Test 1 - summarising text Test 2 - programming ability (this blog) Test 3 - presenting arguments Test 4 - creating images Test 5 - role-playing Conclusions and recommendations