Announcing Grok

xAI ^ | 11/4/2023 | xAI

[Bernard]

Using the work grok without properly providing credit for the word's origin is only important to people who read and remember things. Having an understanding of how history works can also irritate the process.

I would expect that most people will either not care where the term grok came from, or they will have to look it up.

[DoodleBob]

The training data used for the release version of Grok-1 comes from both the Internet up to Q3 2023 and the data provided by our AI Tutors.

Swell…so all of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NPR and MSLSD’s lies get mainlined into the LLM’s responses. Pass.

[Red Badger]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

ai is just a “key word” search tool on one of the most corrupted and incorrect reference data bases in existence.

Certainly that was a description of Twitter - but under Musk, I take it that X is a whole different animal. Musk had already turned off access of X database to prior AI s, so Grok is up-to-the-minute and all prior AI s are stale.

Community Notes feature is a crowd-sourced hack at AI, I’d say. Scott Adams is hopeful that Grok will kind of automate Community Notes by both critiquing any given argument as well as steelmanning it. Sounds right to me.

. . . and Grok will, Musk implies, stop being beta by April of the upcoming election year. Imagine if Grok can get traction among blacks . . . say, getting half of them reading Thomas Sowell.

[SheepWhisperer]

Pulled that from memory. Thank you for giving clarification

[FatherofFive]

42, yeah, that’s the answer

[FreedomPoster]

Need to add an “n” to get there.

[Red Badger]

I grok it......................

[SheepWhisperer]

...funny...took a minute to pick up what you put down.
Good laugh

Coffee is slow in its effect today.

[bert]

And, Grok will be native on all Tesla cars

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Heinlein.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

42 is the wrong book.

[Red Badger]

There is a ‘newer, longer ‘ version the Heinlein originally submitted to the publishers, but they rejected it because it was too long, for the times. (This was before the voluminous ‘DUNE’ hit the market.)

The longer version was published after Heinlein’s death...........

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stranger-in-a-strange-land-robert-a-heinlein/1100171693

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Grok did not originate in HG… no matter how much Elon likes it. Grok is from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

I care. It was wrong to attribute it to an inferior book. Stranger in a Strange Land was revolutionary and deserves respect.

[NautiNurse]

One of my fav football characters evuh:

Gronk

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Oops. I guess I ended up conflating two different things Musk is quoted as having said . . .

[PGalt]

Intersting

[moovova]

Oh...you said "Grok"...never mind.

[bert]

You don’t comprehend what the Musk disruptor team did.

They merged the concepts of the Hitch Hikers guide with the Stranger in a Strange Land.

The result is an AI system that can answer all with through understanding.

If you carry the Grok you will have an understanding of all in your hand regardless of where you happen to be in the galaxy.

The Freeper propensity to insist on either or can’t grasp and which is actually both