Posted on 11/06/2023 4:24:02 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!
A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.
Grok is still a very early beta product – the best we could do with 2 months of training – so expect it to improve rapidly with each passing week with your help.
Thank you, the xAI Team
Why we are building Grok At xAI, we want to create AI tools that assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge.
By creating and improving Grok, we aim to:
Gather feedback and ensure we are building AI tools that maximally benefit all of humanity. We believe that it is important to design AI tools that are useful to people of all backgrounds and political views. We also want empower our users with our AI tools, subject to the law. Our goal with Grok is to explore and demonstrate this approach in public. Empower research and innovation: We want Grok to serve as a powerful research assistant for anyone, helping them to quickly access relevant information, process data, and come up with new ideas. Our ultimate goal is for our AI tools to assist in the pursuit of understanding.
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Early Access to Grok We are offering a limited number of users in the United States to try out our Grok prototype and provide valuable feedback that will help us improve its capabilities before a wider release. You can join the Grok waitlist here. This release just represents the first step for xAI. Looking ahead, we have an exciting roadmap and will be rolling out new capabilities and features in the coming months.
In Von Braun’s 1953 book “Mars Project,” he referenced a person titled: the “Elon” that would bring humans to Mars.
I need to read it. My parents had a copy.
A gorgeous man & a kitten will do it every time; )
Why would I want a machine try and write my thoughts?
A most excellent read
Happy Monday! Enjoy your week. 😁
Valentine Michael Smith, as I recall.
You too! 😊
Turns out I was just passing along someone else’s mistake . . . oh well.
Back in the day, my kids (none conservative) asked why I liked to read Thomas Sowell so much.I replied, “Because he agrees with me - after I have read what he has written, of course!
Can it think if a human unplugs the computer?
Heinlein wrote “Starship Troopers”, and the left freaked out and called him a fascist, because of it.
Then he wrote “Stranger in a Strange Land”, and the right freaked out and called him a communist, because of it.
That said, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is one of my very favorite books. I used to read aloud from that book to my kids when they were young.
Opening lines:
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."Also this from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
😊
Freeper propensity… nice framing. Yes, I completely understood that this could just be a marketing strategy. Sorry to disappoint you.
Awesome book. I read many years ago.
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