I have found MANY errors in what Grok tells me. Serious errors in Excel formulas. Serious errors where it keeps asking me to provide something over and over again. Serious errors in simple facts. I point all these out and it replies “Thanks for catching that.” I’m losing faith.
And don’t get me started on interactive telephone systems. Verizon’s now brags “We are using AI to give you the best customer experience” and, instead, it is now the WORST of any company I deal with. They get a solid zero out of ten.
I have a simple request — stop sending me junk email and text messages. You’d think such a simple request would be easy to handle. Nope. Nothing can stop that flow of junk.
I have used Chat GPT and Grok to look up medical facts for patients I am treating, where I would normally use a textbook, journal article, or Google.
They are both wrong enough of the time that they are not safe for medical use in their current iterations.
I’ve had the exact same thing when asking about genetics. I assumed if I gave Grok chromosome and base pair numbers it would immediately know what genes were contained in that region.
It started talking about a gene that was tens of thousands of basepairs upstream.
When I corrected Grok it gave the exact thing you found: “Thanks for catching that.”