Posted on 11/06/2023 4:24:02 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
According to a review by a Tesla enthusiast ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oM0ManQyg ) the thing has a vulgar mode. And (he quotes from Twitter X) writes text which which, to my eye, looks like it must have been human-written. I.e., it’s hard to see how it doesn’t pass the Touring Test. And xAI expects to improve it rapidly over the next six months! Grok even will try to suggest questions to ask it.
The plan is to make it available to premium X subscribers, and people are reportedly lining up to try it so fast that it looked like a denial-of-service attack. At the price of a premium X subscription, if this thing takes off anything like ChatGPT did at first, it will make X profitable.
Grok
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Grok
Grok /ˈɡrɒk/ is a neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.
One of my favorite science fiction books when I was young...
Elon just posted Stranger in a strange land. I guess to let us know where he stole the name of his AI.
It seems to me that the AI crowd is trying to tell us that they can make a computer think without human intervention? It isn’t possible. AI needs to be relabeled HR (Human Repetition). There is absolutely nothing intelligent about AI except that an intelligent human wrote the algorithm!
Grok is a universally accepted word in the English language.
It means to understand thoroughly
What has happened is that Musk and company Grok AI all the way to the bank
Yes, I am disappointed they don’t seem to acknowledge their debt to RAH.
42
Elon’s wonderful - the name fits ...
Actually, forty-two in the original text
40-2 = 38
ai is just a “key word” search tool on one of the most corrupted and incorrect reference data bases in existence.
Elon is quite open about his enthusiasm for Hitchhiker’s (which I have never read), and the origin of “grok."
“Grok is a universally accepted word in the English language.”
Not until Robert A. Heinlein invented it in 1961 one. I am curious how well the writing output of Grok will stand up to AI detectors. Also, if X can keep it from being Woke. If it writes well and stays unbiased, it deserves to make money.
I would love unbiased medical information, scientific opinions, and political thought. Imagine asking an AI if the 2020 election was stolen and the response was yes with all the details of who, what, and why? Or the latest unfiltered cancer progress? Or the actual harmful effects of the COVID vaccine and the damage it done? All the truthful stuff that takes months to research.
Of course Heinlein wrote the word. The universal acceptance among educated people is tribute to the Heinlein future history genius
I just re-read this a couple of months ago. It holds up pretty well today. I don’t think Elon’s use as stealing the word rather it helps cement the word in history which is kind of nice.
I grok you.
He certainly foresaw our current times. He called them The Crazy Years.
Was are living in 🤡🌎.
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