AS DeepSeek, the latest artificial intelligence (AI) phenomenon, thunders into public consciousness, social media platforms are flooded with tutorials of using the software to assist in tasks from designing wedding invitations to teaching math and telling fortunes. Among the tutorials, one released by Tsinghua University’s Metaverse Culture Laboratory team — DeepSeek from Beginner to Mastery 2025 — stands out. The 104-page document, which covers theory and practical skills, is a detailed manual for mastering DeepSeek and harnessing its full potential. It’s designed both for beginners and advanced users. The guide provides strategies for creating prompts that enhance AI performance, including task decomposition, iterative optimization and avoiding common pitfalls. It also includes case studies illustrating how to apply DeepSeek to meet various needs. Team leader Shen Yang, a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Journalism and Communication and its College of AI, was quoted by the China Daily as saying that human-computer dialogue is essential for progress. Even though AI’s ability to understand human intentions has improved significantly in the era of reasoning models, humans still need to clearly express their needs, he said. Its ability to understand humans is getting stronger, and we should attach great importance to this kind of human-computer interaction, he added. By providing free tutorials, the team wishes to deliver the power of AI to everyone, allowing everyone to use and master the tool. The interaction between human intelligence and AI needs further exploration, Shen said, adding that he has interacted with different AI applications and models around 30,000 times. It’s interesting and exciting to find out how DeepSeek, an open-source software, could change industries and jobs with its potential fully tapped, he added. A social media influencer using the name Zhinan Shanhe posted a four-episode video tutorial of DeepSeek on Douyin and Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote. The videos have been popular, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes. The 30-year-old from Shanghai works in the AI industry and has mastered many AI tools. “The capabilities of DeepSeek are mesmerizing. It is powerful and also completely free, which is a blessing for its users,” he said. “The emergence of DeepSeek is a beam of hope for homegrown AI apps and has allowed more people to see the value of AI,” he said. (SD-Agencies) | 