Grok

[Fraidycat]

Grok is Elon Musks' - non Woke - non PC, truth seeking, AI chatbot

From the xAI website:

"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."

 

[Fraidycat]

And if you drive a TESLA you will be able to have Grok chat with you, KITT/Knight Rider style.

 

[NotAllThere]

"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!

But does it have the words "Don't Panic" written in large friendly letters on the front?

 

[Fraidycat]

But does it have the words "Don't Panic" written in large friendly letters on the front?

Probably, do you remember the tesla he sent out into space back in 2018:

 

[vetran]

 

[cojak]

But does it have the words "Don't Panic" written in large friendly letters on the front?

No, because Red Dwarf borrowed Grok from Robert Heinlein’s 1961 novel ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’

The word "grok", coined in the novel, made its way into the English language. In Heinlein's invented Martian language, "grok" literally means "to drink" and figuratively means "to comprehend", "to love", and "to be one with". The word rapidly became common parlance among science fiction fans, hippies, and later computer programmers[SUP][20][/SUP] and hackers,[SUP][21][/SUP] and has since entered the Oxford English Dictionary.[SUP][22][/SUP]

 

[malvolio]

No, because Red Dwarf borrowed Grok from Robert Heinlein’s 1961 novel ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’

It was also a word for a concept that Heinlein could not define himself, which was rather the point. To Grok something was to understand it at such a fundamental level that you could make it do "stuff", from a spoon stirring a pot of spaghetti sauce by itself to making something disappear itself from the universe completely. The basic idea is that if you don't have the concept of a thing, you won't have a word for it, but that different intelligences will have different concepts and hence different words.

But that diversion aside, it is a book well worth reading and Jubal Harshaw a man worth emulating - although some millennials will have problems with the attitudes in it.

 

[Dactylion]

No, because Red Dwarf borrowed Grok from Robert Heinlein’s 1961 novel ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’

Ahhh yeah Robert Heinlein who gradually became borderline* pornographic in his writing.
Stranger was fairly sexualised, but I think I threw in the towel with Number of the Beast.

* I don't mean borderline I mean out and out openly

 

[WTFH]

Can someone who has drunk the koolaid of grok ask it: why do Teslas keep catching fire?

 

[malvolio]

Ahhh yeah Robert Heinlein who gradually became borderline* pornographic in his writing.
Stranger was fairly sexualised, but I think I threw in the towel with Number of the Beast.

* I don't mean borderline I mean out and out openly

He was highlighting the hypocrisy of American culture at that time. then again, have you read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five?

It was also a handy way of hiding his more controversial thoughts around government and how it should be run.