Everything about Grok, the AI in the image and likeness of that funny guy Elon Musk

6 November 20236 months ago babelfish

And artificial intelligence it was, even for Elon Musk. The billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, X (formerly Twitter) and so on and so forth now also has his own very personal chatbot called Grok. All the details

Sarcastic and with access to a vast amount of information in real time. No, he's not Elon Musk, but he has something to do with it. It is Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) that the histrionic entrepreneur proposes as an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGpt.

ALL OF MUSK'S THOUGHTS ON AI

In 2015 he participated with a generous donation in the birth of the OpenAI software house, parent of ChatGpt, from which he withdrew three years later without ever giving too many details. Last March he was among the staunchest supporters of the so-called anti-ChatGpt manifesto to ask for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence and in July he officially presented his own AI company (xAI), which gave birth to the chatbot competing with ChatGpt and similar: Grok.

GROK, THE AI THAT COMES FROM SCIENCE FICTION

The name couldn't have been coincidental. “Grok”, in fact, is a verb coined by the American science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein and, according to the Collins dictionary, means “to understand thoroughly and intuitively”, but it is also a tribute to the cult science fiction book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (in Italian, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ) by Douglas Adams.

“Grok is an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , so it's meant to answer almost everything and, even more difficult, suggest what questions to ask!”, explained the xAI team. “It's designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don't use it if you hate humour!”

Musk himself joked in a tweet: “She is also based on and loves sarcasm. I have no idea who could have sent her down this path."

GROK VS CHATGPT

In the same tweet, Musk also added that Grok "has real – time access to information via to one question and another AI that he says has less up-to-date information.

From xAI they reported that Grok is based on a large language model (LLM) called Grok-1 which by some standards, such as middle school math problem solving, outperformed Gpt-3.5, the model used in the ChatGpt version available to everyone. However, they also admitted that they lag behind the more powerful GPT-4 model and that the chatbot "may still generate false or contradictory information."

Furthermore, according to Musk, Grok is a "good" artificial intelligence, unlike the others. To prove this, he questioned her about the steps needed to produce cocaine at home. This, after suggesting that he get a degree in chemistry and a license from the DEA, build a clandestine laboratory in a remote location, buy large quantities of coca leaves and various chemicals, start cooking, in the hope of not blowing up or being arrested, he finally said: “I was joking! Please don't actually try to make cocaine. It's illegal, dangerous and something I don't want to encourage."

WHO CAN USE GROK

Grok has currently been made available to a limited number of users in the United States as a prototype, to which “new functionality and features” will be integrated in the coming months. However, you can get on the waiting list because if the results are positive, the feature will be part of X's premium subscription for $16 per month .

BUT IS MUSK REALLY AFRAID OF AI?

But what is Musk's strategy on artificial intelligence? Scared to beat competitors and come first or actually to the point of sincerely wanting to create a "good" AI?

Musk, someone who looks very far ahead, has always warned about the risk that AI could be a threat to human beings, however, he does not want to give up the competition perhaps because, as his biographer Walter Isaacson said : “It's like Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he continually struggles with his demons."

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/tutto-su-grok-lia-a-immagine-e-somiglianza-di-quel-simpaticone-di-elon-musk/ on Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:51:22 +0000.