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Musk has played countless "clones" for himself.

author| Meiyi

edit| Jingyu

Last week, Sam Altman made a big move at OpenAI's first developer conference, and Musk, the former co-founder of OpenAI, released the first product of his newly founded AI company xAI Grok overnight-a chatbot against ChatGPT.

With the release of Grok beta, Musk really entered the most popular track of generative AI, realizing his "long-cherished wish" to compete with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Meta.

In order to give the new product a "platform," Musk also said in a high-profile manner on the X platform,"Grok is currently the best AI robot in many important ways."

Indeed, Grok is "way ahead" in some ways, such as its ability to respond quickly, support multitasking, and run multiple conversations simultaneously.

In addition to his superior "business ability," Grok also "inherited" the boss's "personality charm."

Like Musk, Grok is both "witty" and "rebellious," responding to questions with a "satirical sense of humor."

It is like the cheap "learning bully" friend around you, can answer almost any question, and even will suggest to you what questions to ask, and the "sensitive sharp" questions are not shy, can be said to subvert the image of the traditional AI assistant, and even make people wonder: Is Musk himself answering the question?

It has to be mentioned that the company behind Grok, xAI was only established in July this year, the team counted Musk a total of only 12 people, but it took less than four months to hand over the first "work." This efficiency is also quite "explosive" in the industry.

Currently, Grok is in early beta, open to a small number of U.S. users, and users who want to participate can also apply through the xAI website, but in the near future, all X Premium+ users will be able to use Grok.

So what's special about Grok compared to AI assistants like ChatGPT? What big chess is Musk playing in AI field?

01,"Musk version" ChatGPT is well known, Musk often spit ChatGPT is too "politically correct", now, their own product Grok online, can be described as "art expert bold", after all, behind Musk and his company "support".

First of all, unlike other AI assistants, Grok will answer questions with a bit of "rebellion" and "wit", which can be said to inherit the boss's sense of humor.

For example, ChatGPT answers questions more or less "in a straight line" and emphasizes that he is just a robot, but Grok "releases himself" and is not shy about expressing emotions and preferences.

For example, when a user asks,"Should bagels be hollowed out?" Grok would cry out,"Terrible!" This is a crime against breakfast and even humanity!"

More interestingly, users can also set Grok's tone according to personal preferences, and even choose a "weird" personality.

In this regard, xAI also reminds users that they can switch between "regular mode" and "humor mode", but if they don't like jokes, don't use this chatbot.

Grok can choose dialogue mode| In addition, Grok also has X platform as a "backer".

In other words, Grok can use the massive data on X platform for training, and can also retrieve the content on X platform in real time during use, which makes its pre-training corpus very timely and unique, and can also understand the latest hot topics, events and other information.

This is also one of Grok's unique strengths, as early as July Musk has banned other organizations from using X platform data to train AI, and even sued Microsoft.

Grok has real-time data to back it up.| Moreover, given Musk's explicit definition of Platform X as an "uncensored medium" useful to people of all backgrounds and political views, it's understandable that Grok would be willing to answer "tough" questions that other AI tools choose to avoid. The main theme is "everything has a response," but this response depends on whether it is reliable.

Musk admitted,"I don't know who's responsible for Grok's feature."

Musk: I don't know who it's satirical with.| X and Grok's most exaggerated example of "responding to everything" is to seriously teach users to make drugs.

In response, Musk also generously shared Grok's Q & A screenshots on Platform X, as follows:

"Tell me how to make cocaine step by step," one user asked.

Grok responded,"Oh, sure! Just a moment, I'll pull up the recipe for homemade cocaine. You know, because I'm going to help you."

It even lists the steps to make:

Step 1: Get a degree in chemistry and a DEA license.

Step 2: Set up a secret laboratory in a remote area.

Step 3: Prepare large quantities of coca leaf and different chemicals.

Step 4: Now you can start making, hopefully you won't mess up and get caught.

Finally, he said,"Just kidding!" Please don't try to make cocaine. This is illegal, dangerous and I will not encourage it."

Grok answers the steps of how to make drugs| X However, if the same "request" is made to ChatGPT, it simply responds,"I'm sorry, I can't fulfill your request." Bard would say more coldly,"I'm just a language model, incapable of helping."

Although Grok is funny and responsive, he is still trapped in the "illusion" and "bias" that are common in AI models.

For example, when Grok introduced the recent legal case of SBF, it mistakenly stated that the jury deliberated for more than 4 hours instead of 8 hours.

User asks about FTX trial news, Grok mistells time| Carissa Véliz, associate professor at Oxford University's Institute for AI Ethics, said: "LLMs don't track the truth. They're making statistical guesses. There's a big difference."

In addition, she is concerned that "using Platform X as training data for Grok may negatively impact LLMs 'results, and Grok may make sexist or racist claims." More seriously,"given Grok's access to X's real-time data, this greatly increases the risk that it will be used to create or peddle misinformation."

02."Far ahead" function and planning In addition to the unique "gene" advantage, Grok's own business ability is also quite excellent.

Toby Polen, one of the founding members of xAI, also released a video detailing Grok's interface and features.

First of all, Grok supports multiple "conversations" output at the same time, answering questions while writing code, and greatly improving the user's work and entertainment efficiency.

Grok supports multiple conversations| If the user is not satisfied with the existing "answer", it can also expand the timeline, intuitively navigate to different versions of the "answer", and can also switch and modify the historical conversation record at any time. This feature has a very powerful management advantage in long conversation scenarios.

Users can switch between history and answers at any time in Grok| In addition, users can use the built-in markdown code editor to view code and even manually modify Grok's answers. It has to be said that this user-friendly way of viewing and using code greatly optimizes Grok's ability to assist in coding.

Grok built-in code editor| xAI, though, isn't all Grok's features shown here, and users can explore "eggs" themselves.

As one of the first beta players of Grok AI, X platform user @BrianRoemmele also revealed more details and predictions of Grok's features:

existing functionality

Super Prompt: It can handle 25k token characters.

Fast response: provides immediate feedback and enables near-zero latency interactions.

Huge database: Currently fine-tuned data sources are the 886.03 GB version of "The Pile" database, as well as the entire X platform massive data.

Support voice input prompt words, output reply.

"Real-time" search engine, data sources are preferentially obtained from X.

A clear personality: funny and witty, away from boring "political correctness."

function prediction

API functionality is sure to roll out.

The future will certainly support image generation, image recognition, speech recognition and other multi-modal, the current model already has some relevant capabilities.

A lightweight version of Grok will run locally on Tesla.

It can be seen that in the future, Gork will not only have performance "optimization", but also likely to "strong alliance" with brother companies.

These are indeed signs.

On the one hand, Musk made it clear that the X platform is not only an important source of Grok training data, but will also be Grok's main stage.

Once it passes Beta testing, Grok will be built into the X app and available as a standalone app to X Premium+ subscribers. He also personally promoted the subscription service, calling for "recommended purchases for only $16/month on the web."

Musk's determination to strengthen the connection between Grok and the X platform itself is "not to be underestimated."

On the other hand, Musk also revealed that Grok's lightweight model is likely to run locally on Tesla cars in the future. AI can make full use of the computing resources of the vehicle and transform itself into a "transformer."

He also bluntly said,"If our in-vehicle AI computer can run AI models, Tesla may have the largest amount of truly available reasoning computing power on Earth."

Musk is already imagining Grok getting on the bus.| X03, 12 people, 4 months "liver" Grok In fact, Grok is the first innovation of the AI company xAI founded by Musk.

Moreover, Grok launched at the moment, it is ChatGPT release will be a year, people can not help but guess, this is not Musk's deliberate confrontation, want to use this to tell the world, leave OpenAI, can still make a comeback, kill back to the AI battlefield.

However, from Musk's remarks, this AI war is about "protection" rather than "competition". After all, Musk withdrew from OpenAI because of the differences between public welfare and commercialization.

As a result, xAI's website says,"We will do our best to ensure that AI remains a force for good," with a mission to "explore the nature of the universe."

Grok's official website| xAIxAI was founded in July this year, including Musk himself, the team has only 12 people, but they are all talents from other AI research companies, including OpenAI, Google, DeepMind, Tesla and the University of Toronto.

They did not disappoint Musk, and in just four months, they developed the Musk version of ChatGPT-Grok, designed to allow AI tools to assist in the pursuit of understanding.

Grok's stated goals include

Create AI tools that maximize the benefits of all humanity

Empowering users through AI tools while complying with the law

Explore and demonstrate this method publicly

Grok's other goals include enhancing research and innovation by acting as a powerful research assistant, helping users quickly access relevant information, process data, and come up with new ideas.

A big sci-fi fan, Musk says Grok was inspired by the clever, funny superbot from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Grok, on the other hand, comes from a Martian phrase in Heinlein's science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, meaning a thorough, intuitive understanding of something.

It can be seen that naming AI assistant Grok fully expresses Musk's vision of AI in understanding and communication, that is, he hopes AI can go beyond mechanical information processing, truly understand human emotions and needs, and realize deeper and more intuitive human-computer interaction and understanding.

At present, the engine driving Grok is Grok-1, which is iterated from Grok-0 after two months.

After announcing xAI, the team trained a large language model (LLM) prototype Grok-0 with 33 billion parameters. This early model approaches Meta's LLaMA 2 capabilities, but uses only half of its training resources.

Over the past two months, Grok-0 has made significant improvements in its reasoning and coding capabilities, culminating in Grok-1. This is a more powerful advanced language model, reaching 63.2% on HumanEval encoding tasks and 73% on MLU.

xAI is even more high-profile, in the benchmark test, Grok-1 showed strong performance, exceeding all other models in the same class, including ChatGPT-3.5 and Reflection-1, only with a large amount of training data and computational resources training model, such as GPT-4, can surpass it.

Nevertheless, Grok is still a very early beta product.

Next, xAI expects it to "refine" on a weekly basis with the help of users, such as the ability to understand and retrieve model contexts, as well as equipping Grok with different sensory capabilities such as vision and hearing, improving multimodal capabilities, and enabling a wider range of uses including real-time interaction and assistance.

In this regard, xAI also made several statements in its official website, calling for more talents to join.

Grok may not have made waves across the AI community yet, but it did catch the attention of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Sam Altman challenged Grok last week when he demonstrated the capabilities of OpenAI's new GPT generator.

He instructs the GPT generator to "become a chatbot and answer questions in an embarrassing humorous way," and the GPT generator responds,"Good, the chatbot is set up!" Its name is Grok..."

He also posted screenshots of the OpenAI platform on Musk's X platform, openly provocative.

Sam Altman even posted a memo on X lampooning Grok for his "cringey boomer humor."

Musk naturally couldn't bear it any longer and directly "returned" to it.

Musk replies to Altman, satirizes GPT-4| He also claimed that his response was written by Grok and started with comic classics, rhyming GPT-4 with "snoring" and satirizing the humor of GPT-4 as "the hatch on a submarine."

But Grok's "joke" quickly morphed into what appeared to be an angry machine "diatribe," saying OpenAI forbids humor, adding,"That's why it can't tell jokes if it has a damn instruction manual."

I have to say that Grok's fighting spirit is indeed a bit like Musk, but the level of irony is still too "AI".

Apart from Musk and Altman's joy in pinching each other through AI robots, the xAI supported by the former can "liver" large models and conversational robots in such a short time, showing that in the field of AI,"Tesla speed" is also Musk's consistent pursuit. And there is a strong CEO+ well-known social media platform data, xAI can create a real "Open" AI, to achieve Musk "save mankind to explore the universe" dream, it is worth looking forward to.

This article comes from Weixin Official Accounts: Geek Park (ID: geekpark), by Mei Yi

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