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X.ai Grok

by oferzelig on 11/5/23, 5:57 AM with 16 comments

  • by Isomorpheus on 11/5/23, 12:25 PM

    Saving you the scroll: weaker than GPT-4 and Claude 2
  • by Jowsey on 11/5/23, 9:27 AM

    Some context from the main X.ai page:

    > Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!

    Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!

    A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.

    Grok is still a very early beta product – the best we could do with 2 months of training – so expect it to improve rapidly with each passing week with your help.

    Haven't tried it because I refuse to pay for Twitter Premium but from the description it seems disappointingly gimmicky coming from a company backed by a billionaire that presumably wants to be taken seriously. Their "product" is a funny system prompt to some LLM hooked up to the Twitter search bar? Hopefully someone with Premium can prove me wrong :\

  • by xena on 11/5/23, 12:31 PM

    I miss the real x.ai where you could have some primitive bundle of if statements schedule meetings for you.