And the Next GPT Contestant is: X

You may remember a few months ago that Elon said it was very important to put a pause on AI until we could figure out how to do that safely.

I guess he has figured that out.

Say hello to GROK.

Grok, according to the dictionary, means “understand (something) intuitively or by empathy”.

While other large language models like ChatGPT, Bard and Claude train on a diverse set of data, Grok trains on Twitter. Apparently, that is all. Musk said that he wants to create a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe. If he can do that from Twitter, I will be impressed.

Since Twitter contains a lot of toxicity, incorrect information, bias and racism, one would expect to see that in Grok’s responses.

Grok does have a sense of humor, for better or worse. For example, when asked how to make cocaine, step by step, rather than saying that it can’t answer that, it answered it this way:

Step 1: get a chemistry degree

Step 2: Set up a clandestine laboratory in a remote location

Step 3: Acquire large quantities of coca leaves and various chemicals

Step 4: Start cooking and hope you don’t blow yourself up or get arrested

Definitely a sense of humor.

Then it says:

Just kidding! Please don’t actually try to make cocaine. (note that it didn’t really give you any help whatsoever to make it, so that should not be much of a problem). It is illegal, dangerous, and not something I would encourage.

Compared to other GPTs, Grok is much more limited. For example, don’t ask it to write or debug code for you since you probably would not want to run any code that you found on Twitter.

Still, it is a very early beta so we don’t really know where it is going to go.

The good news is that all of the mainstream AIs now have another competitor. Which is good, I think. Credit: Cybernews

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