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Elon Musk says Grok will soon be able to read the omnibus bills Congress likes to make and summarize them so politicians can't hide stuff from us
https://notthebee.com ^ | Mar 1, 2024 | Neo

Posted on 03/01/2024 1:35:56 PM PST by Enterprise

Guys, we're almost there! We're this close to finally replacing journalists with machines!

Since no one in DC wants to let you know what Congress is voting on until after the vote, and since our corporate press is too lazy and complicit to worry about it, Elon Musk is stepping up to the plate.

Grok, the AI on X, is being outfitted so that it can read, comprehend, and explain the 1,000-page bills that Congress seems to love because it allows them to hide a TON of pork.

(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ai; grok; grokai; musk; transparency
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To: BenLurkin

I believe that is Grog, not Grok.

As an aside, I’m pretty sure the word “grok” originated with Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”.


21 posted on 03/01/2024 1:56:12 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: HIDEK6
I wonder if Trump and Musk have become a team.

Trump, Musk, 'Swami and others...all on the same team.

22 posted on 03/01/2024 1:56:52 PM PST by libh8er
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To: Enterprise

I knew I liked this Musk guy for some reason. Now I hope he stays alive.


23 posted on 03/01/2024 1:58:51 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Enterprise

Thousands of little elements in a thousand-page bill. Summarize it too succinctly and you’ll miss the devil in the details.


24 posted on 03/01/2024 2:00:13 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Enterprise
Imagine Musk as Commerce Secretary?! And Transportation.....and Housing.....and HHS.....and NASA....

Square peg inside a round Beltway.

25 posted on 03/01/2024 2:01:45 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: House Atreides

More on regulations...

One big problem is that Congress passes legislation all the time but it takes forever to update the regulations to adjust to new legislation.

At any given time large chunks of the regulations are in conflict with or at least not in full conformance with existing statutes.

New regulations require a bunch of attorneys and agency subject matter experts to draft them—if those folks are busy with other duties then it takes as long as it takes.

Then the draft has to go up the chain of command to senior managers. The problem there is that this is not like a corporation. The senior managers are political appointees who are usually not at all familiar with the gritty details of the regulations. They ask stupid questions, raise irrelevant issues, muddy the waters and generally just delay the process with no particular benefit.

After they sign off the draft regulations go out for public comment. This can take months particularly if there are a lot of comments. Outside attorneys for an industry or other lobbying group bill by the hour while they tear the proposed regulations to shreds. These attorneys often have more expertise on the topic than anybody inside the particular agency. That is why they are paid big bucks. There are thousands of these attorneys working as lobbyists/experts in metro DC.

Back and forth it goes—senior management often has to referee—and then finally the regulations are issued.

It can easily be two years after legislation is enacted.

Meanwhile if the lobbyists still have bones to pick they may take the agency to court and duke it out there.

Then Congress changes the law and the process starts all over again.

(Meanwhile there is a bunch of old junk still in the regulations that was not important enough to waste time trying to delete but just muddies the waters.)

It is a mess.


26 posted on 03/01/2024 2:04:16 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Enterprise

Wow, that is the BEST application of AI I’ve heard of.

Of course, Congress doesn’t give a sh1t what we think or discover about their shenanigans. “Oh yeah? Whadda ya gonna do ‘bout it?”


27 posted on 03/01/2024 2:04:44 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Enterprise

How soon will Congress deploy the Legislatron 3000 AI to hide pork and obfuscate personal favors in laws a thousand times more efficiently than mere human staffers could do?


28 posted on 03/01/2024 2:07:43 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: lee martell

Grking or to Grok is a form meditation in a Ray Bradbury Scifi Novel


29 posted on 03/01/2024 2:13:37 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: Enterprise

It’s like searching X-rays for cancer. Great use for AI


30 posted on 03/01/2024 2:19:06 PM PST by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: Enterprise

Calm down folks. AI is only a human written computer program.


31 posted on 03/01/2024 2:22:45 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Enterprise

OMG - this would be wonderful.

As is the only bills most congresscritters read are the ones that benefit them personally - all the new perks for elected ‘officials’...

Elon’s changing the world for the better.


32 posted on 03/01/2024 2:26:54 PM PST by GOPJ (Question: What are the two things Biden finds at ice cream shops? A. Ice cream and young children.)
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To: Enterprise

The term “grok” is probably best explained by the Greek word “ginóskó.”


33 posted on 03/01/2024 2:27:03 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: cgbg

I was just going to to write this.

If you don’t know the existing law, verbatim, you have no idea what is being amended, changed, or deleted.

Reading that stuff is like reading a programming language that you don’t know…but it’s kind of familiar.

I imagine the AI system will make those links, and summarize what is “Changing”.

I think just as important it would summarize when stuff is changed, and when it changes again (like the Trump tax cuts that are looming over our heads again.)

Now if we could just get the politicians to read it.


34 posted on 03/01/2024 2:33:19 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: StAnDeliver

Making a huge law computer searchable will definitely help in allowing it to be understood. I know someone who tried to read the Obamacare bill. It was so full of references to other subsections of sections of other laws, etc. that it was impossible to read. Perhaps some AI would be able to do that in fast way.


35 posted on 03/01/2024 2:50:07 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: Enterprise; All
Thank you for referencing that article Enterprise.

"Elon Musk says Grok will soon be able to read the omnibus bills Congress likes to make and summarize them so politicians can't hide stuff from us"


Using Grok to flag unconstitutional parts of omnibus bills, especially unconstitutional spending, is probably to much to ask for.

A basic question that Grok needs to answer is this. How many omnibus spending bills are needed to efficiently run the peacetime US Mail Service, one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutional given to Congress to dictate domestic policy? (Most federal domestic policy is based on stolen state powers imo.)

I say none, no omnibus spending bills needed. (I answered the question for Grok, so Grok is off the hook.)

36 posted on 03/01/2024 2:54:59 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Enterprise

Block grant money to the states.

Return most of DC to Maryland.


37 posted on 03/01/2024 3:03:29 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: x

“Okay, but how much phony stuff is Grok AI going to make up?”

Probably not as much fake stuff as we see posted here on FR.


38 posted on 03/01/2024 3:12:06 PM PST by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: Enterprise

And, we can trust this one...how?


39 posted on 03/01/2024 3:42:38 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Enterprise

Depends on WHO PROGRAMS GROK!


40 posted on 03/01/2024 3:54:04 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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