News Elon Musk Announces Humorous Grok AI Chatbot for X Premium+ Subscribers

[Admin]

Musk's Grok AI became available today to a select few users, but the humorous chatbot will be $16pcm when it exits beta.

Elon Musk Announces Humorous Grok AI Chatbot for X Premium+ Subscribers : Read more

 

[Giroro]

I don't want an AI, chat bot, or digital assistant that is in any way trying to be funny, humorous, snarky, or "have an attitude".

Its like the "free smells" sign at Jimmy John's. It started out as mildly cute the first time anybody saw it, decades later it's now just a passive aggressive middle finger to potential customers, which calls unnecessary attention to their overpriced low-quality sandwiches.

Don't waste my time. Just find me the impossible-to-google tidbits of information I need (for example "when did Jimmy John's start using 'free smells' signs", or "how much money is $16pcm in usd"), and move on.

 

[hotaru251]

While admittedly somewhat stunted for now, xAI and Musk claim that Grok has a “unique and fundamental advantage,” due to its knowledge gleaned from the Twitter/X platform.

ahh yes a ai model trained off the cesspool that is twitter where they got rid of reporting misinformation.....

 

[bit_user]

I'd say the only part about this which impressed me was the idea of making it somewhat clownish. That lowers users' expectations and probably makes them more forgiving when it outputs rubbish. Still, would you really pay for that?

I guess the eventual goal is to make something competitive with the OpenAI models, and putting something out there should hopefully give them useful early feedback. I just don't trust Musk enough to get involved in this project.

ahh yes a ai model trained off the cesspool that is twitter where they got rid of reporting misinformation.....

I was about to comment on that exact sentence, too! Even for Musk, I'd imagine they must've done a lot of filtering and curation to eliminate the lower-quality tweets. Otherwise, it would probably sound just like your run-of-the-mill Twitter troll, and who would pay money to use that?

I'm sure the training data extends beyond Twitter, since there's no way it's learning good math skills from tweets.

 

[Findecanor]

BTW: The logo infringes on Deutsche Bank's trademark.

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

"humorous"? Let's be accurate and say xenophobic, because that's all it will be. It will quickly get sued and considering the tanking usage of the site it will barely learn anything useful.

 

[Cool-T]

Every time I see the "formerly known as Twitter" X, like is shown in this article, I get the impulse to click on it, thinking it will close the window.

But it never works.

 

[DavidLejdar]

Weren't the offices of the Hitchhiker's Guide taken over by the Vogon? Irony at work?

 

[g-unit1111]

I don't want an AI, chat bot, or digital assistant that is in any way trying to be funny, humorous, snarky, or "have an attitude".

Its like the "free smells" sign at Jimmy John's. It started out as mildly cute the first time anybody saw it, decades later it's now just a passive aggressive middle finger to potential customers, which calls unnecessary attention to their overpriced low-quality sandwiches.

Don't waste my time. Just find me the impossible-to-google tidbits of information I need (for example "when did Jimmy John's start using 'free smells' signs", or "how much money is $16pcm in usd"), and move on.

Or like when restaurants started calling appetizers "apps" and sandwiches "handhelds". It was maybe cute for a minute when smartphones first came out, but it's been 15 years now!

 

[DonQuixoteIII]

Musk just doesn't grok grok.

 

[King_V]

Weren't the offices of the Hitchhiker's Guide taken over by the Vogon? Irony at work?

I thought it was military bots from Frogstar or something like that, wasn't it?
I haven't read it in a couple of decades though, so my memory is quite foggy on this.

 

[COLGeek]

Folks, please stay on topic and leave the political commentary for other sites. Thank you.