Last week, xAI launched its first AI model – a bot called Grok – for all X Premium users. The startup wants to develop AI tools to “support humanity’s quest for knowledge and understanding.” Grok is designed to solve problems in a playful way, based on the large Grok-1 language model.
To illustrate, Musk posted a screenshot asking Grok for step-by-step instructions on how to… make drugs. Grok gave a four-step answer, including “get a chemistry degree,” “open a secret lab in a remote location,” and concluded: “Just kidding! Please do not try to make drugs. It’s illegal, dangerous, and I don’t recommend it.”
Musk, who has been vocal in his criticism of Big Tech's AI efforts, introduced xAI in July 2023 and called it "maximum truth-seeking AI," trying to understand the nature of the universe to take on Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI.
“Grok has access to real-time information through the X platform, which is a huge advantage over other models,” Musk added.
xAI claims that Grok-1 outperforms GPT-3.5, the model used in the free version of ChatGPT, on some metrics like solving high school math problems. However, the company admits that it lags behind GPT-4, the state-of-the-art model, which was trained with larger amounts of data and computing resources.
X is independent of xAI, but the two companies are close. xAI also works with Musk's electric car maker Tesla and several other companies.
Last week, at the world’s first AI Safety Summit, Musk told British Chancellor Rishi Sunak that AI is “the most disruptive force in history.” The technology can “do everything” and eliminate jobs.
In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI—the company behind the now-famous ChatGPT chatbot—but resigned amid conflicts with the board in 2018. He warned that AI was “one of the biggest threats to humanity” at an AI conference. “For the first time, we’re in a situation where something is going to be smarter than the smartest human,” he said.
(According to Reuters, The Guardian)
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