Tag: Elon
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Grok is Elon Musk’s new sassy, foul-mouthed AI. But who exactly is it made for?
On November 4, X owner Elon Musk unveiled his new AI chatbot Grok: a sarcastic ChatGPT alternative supposedly “modelled” after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of Musk’s favourite books. The verb Grok means “to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with”. Science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein first coined the term, which is…
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‘Grok,’ Elon Musk’s AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious’ streak
London CNN — Brace yourselves. Jokes incoming. Elon Musk has announced the introduction of “Grok,” an artificially intelligent chatbot, for some users of X, which the billionaire suggests has a sarcastic sense of humor similar to his own. Musk, who has owned X — formerly known as Twitter — for a year, announced late Saturday that…
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What is Grok and what can it do? Elon Musk’s AI chatbot explained
The idea that AI might take over the world is one that even politicians are taking seriously, but honestly, it already feels like it’s happened. You can’t go ten minutes without hearing something about AI mentioned on the news or online. It doesn’t seem like we’ve reached saturation point yet, either as new AI services…
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Elon Musk Announces Grok, a ‘Rebellious’ AI With Few Guardrails
Large language models have proven stunningly capable over the past year or so, as highlighted most famously by OpenAI’s groundbreaking chatbot, ChatGPT. These models feed on huge amounts of text taken from books and the web, and then generate text in response to a prompt. They are typically also given further training by humans to…
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What is Grok? Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, explained
Grok! It might not roll off the tongue like ChatGPT or Windows Copilot, but it’s a large language model chatbot all the same. Developed by xAI, an offshoot of the programmers who stuck around after Elon Musk purchased X (formerly known as Twitter), Grok is designed to compete directly with OpenAI’s GPT-4 models, Google’s Bard,…
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How to Use Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok
In November, xAI, an AI company the tech billionaire founded, unveiled the conversational AI chatbot it calls Grok. Its purpose? “Conversational AI for understanding the universe,” according to xAI’s website. It appears that Grok was designed to be the antithesis of ChatGPT. Unlike OpenAI’s chatbot, which has guardrails over what it can say, xAI said…