Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network X, the micro-blogging site formerly known as Twitter, revealed its "first AI" to a select group of users over the weekend. The product was first teased by former CEO and current owner Elon Musk, who didn't say what it was or did exactly – but was sure it was the best of its kind "in some important respects." "Tomorrow, @xAI …
"A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the X platform."
And this is supposed to be a good thing?? Has he seen the mindless dross that gets posted to Twitter by the terabyte??
Hey, grok, give me the headlines...
Sure thing, you hoopy frood! Tiddles from Aberdeen had whiskas for breakfast before taking a dump in her litter tray about 10:30 am.
In other news, flat earthers conclusively prove the world is flat, and sexy Susie from Swindon is offering a special discount in her only fans.
There's also a few wars, an economic crisis or two, but nothing significant. Meanwhile QAnnon says...
Fully expecting Grok AI to churn out stuff like this two-and-a-half minute video shortly before the world disappears under a nuclear mushroom cloud.
According to a comment by the creator (uploader?), the video was entirely generated by Invideo.
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I am a LOT more concerned about the "Woke Speech". Asking ChatGPT on certain topics either gets you a lecture, or even outright pejorative comments towards those who do not hold the currently accepted "settled science" position, particularly with respect to things like "Climate Change" and "Net Zero".
Seems the robots are heavily biased towards 15-minute cities and restricting our freedom, and calling those who do not agree "deniers". Oh, and ChatGPT too, not just the fleshy robots.
I've seen plenty of examples of this sort of thing. It's seriously disappointing. The entire model of scanning what people CLAIM and how frequent+loud those opinions are drives it into ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY... just like WIkipedia is on certain topics.
Grok needs to be completely DISINFECTED from the 'Woke Mind Virus'. THAT would make it USEFUL.
He drinks tourists visiting Cornwall?
For God's sake man, do NOT put new ideas into the Elon's head. The world already has more than sufficient problems.
(Are there really tourists in Cornwall? Are they soluble? In what? Is the resultant mixture tasty? Is there a profit to be made by peddling it on the Internet? What's the, obligatory this season, AI angle?)
"The informal verb grok was an invention of the science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, whose 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land placed great importance on the concept of grokking. In the book, to grok is to empathize so deeply with others that you merge or blend with them."
Wonder what Heinlein would make of Musk and Xitter?
Yeah, right you are, just testing, carry on, as you were, etc...
As it happens, my first thoughts went to a VALIS reference, then I thought "don't be silly, that's PKD not RH," and then I went and made the same mistake in a different way. It's too many years since I read stuff by either, so it might be time for a re-read soon.
modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Surely Marvin would be a better name and rename twitter Sirius cybernetics
Based on the majority of Twixxer's input nowadays, i will be impressed if any AI model won't become manically depressive and paranoid in about a week
"modelled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
With the same dedication to truth and accuracy no doubt.
... it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it's always reality that's got it wrong...
So tech has to be acceptable to the government of Singapore before it can be released?
Here's what the UK government say about Singapore:
On-the-spot fines are common and can be given for a wide range of behaviours which are tolerated in the UK. You can be fined for littering and for smoking in some public places. It’s also illegal to import chewing gum to sell into the country, except for certain medical chewing gums. If you’re arrested, you may be detained for up to 48 hours. You won’t be allowed to speak with anyone, not even a lawyer, during this period.
Why didn't they go the full Monty and add China to the list of governments with a veto on new tech?
"Why didn't they go the full Monty and add China to the list of governments with a veto on new tech?"
No need that goes without needing to be written down, Musk is always in full kowtow mode with the Chinese, has been forever. Nothing but bitching and complaining about western COVID rules not single peep out of his mouth about the China ones.
Admittedly, some of those are not the parts of Singapore that I object to. The detention without a lawyer thing definitely is, and they have others, but I have no real problem with fines for littering. If the people think it's worth the extra police effort to prevent littering, that's fine. I don't like when people do it here either. My concerns about Singapore are more along the lines of excessive laws on the conduct of the media and only one political party that has never lost a majority somehow, maybe related to the last thing.
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