Elon Musk's newest scheme is an AI chatbot that is 'based and loves sarcasm'
Elon Musk has announced the launch of a new AI chatbot on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The bot is developed by xAI, named Grok, and Musk says «In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,» adding that it «is designed to have a little humor in its responses [...] It’s also based & loves sarcasm. I have no idea who could have guided it this way.»
Grok does differ in some significant respects from other AI chatbots, notably in having «real-time access to info via the X platform» (which people may see as an advantage or disadvantage, given the unreliability of much information on any social media platform). It also won't decline to answer, in Musk's words, «spicy questions» as other AI models do, with the example provided being it responding to a query about a step-by-step guide for making cocaine.
Grok semi-answers the question, but in a vague and humorous way that begins «I'm totally going to help you with that», before advising the questioner not to do it. Let's put it this way: you can call it an answer, but you're not going to learn how to manufacture cocaine.
Other examples of Grok in action include a rather overwritten and joyful account of Sam Bankman-Fried's recent conviction on charges of fraud and money laundering. Notably here the chatbot makes one minor error (saying the jury took eight hours to convict Bankman-Fried rather than the actual five) and doesn't provide much useful information beyond revelling in the former crypto king's downfall.
It's a far cry from Musk's previous claim that he wanted xAI's software to «understand the nature of the universe», though this is of course early days and Grok has apparently only been in development for two months. The
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