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(00:00):
Elon Musk has released a brand newartificial intelligence into the world. Its name
is Grok, and in many waysthis is a very familiar AI application,
but in many more ways, Grockis unlike anything we have seen before.
The Grok chatbot is the first everproduct released from Elon Musk's newest company,
(00:23):
Xai. This is a venture thatElon first began shortly after his acquisition of
the platform formerly known as Twitter butnow only referred to as x because right
around the same time that Elon Muskwas dropping a sink on the reception desk,
his former colleagues at OpenAI were droppingthe tech bomb of the decade chat
(00:44):
GPT. You might have heard ofit. Elon was one of the original
founders of OpenAI, and along witha small cohort of other very rich people,
he seeded the organization with the intentionthat it would grow into a nonprofit
AI research lab that was fully transparentand open source. With their work that
(01:06):
didn't exactly pan out. Elon resignedfrom the board at OpenAI shortly before the
company accepted a massive cash infusion fromMicrosoft and rewrote their business model into a
for profit, closed door organization.In the time since then, Elon Musk
has been slowly building his own artificialintelligence ambitions with Tesla, and we've seen
(01:29):
the autopilot's self driving program evolve fromsimple code based cruise control into a computer
vision based neural network that can navigatethe intricacies of city driving alongside human traffic.
Tesla full self driving has quickly becomeone of the leading examples of real
world artificial intelligence. AI has becomesuch a major part of Tesla that they
(01:52):
now host an annual event aimed specificallyat recruiting new talent into the company's AI
division. But Xai is something entirelydifferent. Founded in early twenty twenty three
by Elon and a very small groupof AI pioneers, this company is aiming
to change the world in a waythat is going to have a pretty big
(02:15):
impact on just about everybody. Allright, let's talk about our new friend
GROC. What the hell's a groc? Well, according to an xai blog
post, Groc is an AI modeledafter The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
so intended to answer almost anything andfar harder even suggest what questions to ask.
(02:37):
In more simple words, it's likechat GPT, but weirder. The
similarity is that they're both chatbots.You can ask the AI a question and
it will write out an answer foryou. That's pretty simple, but one
key difference. As XAI puts it, GROC is designed to answer questions with
a bit of wit and has arebellious streak. It will also answer spicy,
(02:59):
quid questions that are rejected by mostother AI systems, so the AI
has clearly inherited some of the edgelordgenes from Elon. But in addition to
writing swear words and making dirty jokes, GROC has one major superpower that other
AI tools do not. GROC canpull real time data straight from the X
(03:22):
platform, So in many ways,GROC has instant access to everything that is
happening everywhere in the world as longas people are writing about it on X.
We know that OpenAI recently hooked upchat GBT to the Internet through Microsoft's
Being search engine, but this isnot really the same thing. In order
(03:42):
for chat GPT to find new information, it has to be published and cataloged
on a website. It needs acertain level of search engine optimization. But
GROCK is just reading from posts onx as they happen which could be potentially
very powerful but a dangerous we'll getto that in a bit. So we
(04:02):
know that Groc's function is essentially aCHATGBT rival, But what's with the name?
Elon says that Grock is modeled afterHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, most
obviously the passage in the book wherethey ask a supercomputer to tell them the
answer to life, the universe,and everything after seven point five million years
(04:23):
of processing, the computer responds fortytwo. But the term Grock is actually
lifted from the Robert A. Heinlendnovel Stranger in a Strange Land. This
was published in the early sixties andit's a science fiction story about the first
human born in a Mars colony whovisits the Earth and starts his own religious
movement, essentially a cult, andthings don't work out very well. It's
(04:47):
a good book and it was veryinfluential during the Hippie movement. In the
novel, the word groc literally meansto drink, but the author also makes
this a hominem a way, theword with multiple meanings, so in the
story, grock also means to comprehendor to be one with the latter meanings
(05:08):
were quickly adopted by San Francisco hippies, where to groc essentially referred to having
an insightful conversation, and that eventuallyfiltered down to computer programmers and hackers,
as some of those hippies went onto get jobs and found Silicon Valley.
The amazing thing about Xai is thatthe company has only really existed since April
(05:29):
twenty twenty three, and they alreadyhave their first beta release out into the
world. The company says that thecurrent version of their chatbot, groc Ie,
is the best that they could dowith two months of training. According
to some benchmark results posted by thecompany on their blog, grock is already
performing somewhere in between open AI's GPTthree point five and GPT four. These
(05:54):
are the large language models that theChat GPT application operates on, so basically
this tells us that grock is alreadybetter than the Chat GPT from one year
ago when it first launched, butnot as good as the current version of
Chat GPT, which has been upgradedto use GPT four. So that is
very impressive progress and it speaks toElon Musk's ability to find the right people
(06:17):
at the right time and put themto task. The team at xai is
just sixteen people, but these aresome of the top AI researchers and developers
in the world. One of thoseindividuals, Greg Yang, wrote on x
last few weeks have been some ofthe best times of my life. When
a small, motivated group of worldclass people all push in the same direction,
(06:41):
they punch way above their weight.I really did not appreciate this enough
a year ago, but now onlythis guy, not the universe, is
the limit. So clearly a verysatisfied XAI employee. According to the company's
mission statement, XAI is working onbuilding artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery.
(07:02):
We are guided by our mission toadvance our collective understanding of the universe.
So that's kind of vague, butat the same time a pretty massive
statement, and it all feeds backinto Elon Musk's seemingly updated stance on artificial
intelligence. Around ten years ago,Elon was pretty well known for raising the
(07:23):
red flag about AI development. Hewas afraid of the consequences of a powerful
AI getting out of control and turningon humanity. The middle ground was Elon
founding open Ai with the idea thatif AI development was inevitable, then he
at least wanted it to be donein a safe and transparent manner. And
(07:43):
now Elon is shooting his shot attaking over the entire AI industry. So
we've come a long way. Elonwas recently talking about XAI on the Lex
Friedman podcast and he shared some veryinteresting thoughts about what he hoped to achieve
with artificial intelligence. A lot ofit comes back to this idea of understanding
(08:03):
the universe. Elon told Lex wedon't know the meaning of life, but
the more we can expand the scopeand scale of consciousness, either digital or
biological consciousness, the more we areable to ask about the answer that is
the universe. To sum up theirconversation, it's basically, we still have
no idea about the nature of ourown existence. What is a thought?
(08:26):
What is consciousness? Technically, youare just a collection of atoms, and
those atoms are made up of quirksand leptons that have existed since the beginning
of the universe, whatever that was, if there was even a beginning.
So how do these seemingly random combinationsof cosmic elements suddenly begin to form thoughts?
On what plane? Of reality?Do thoughts exist? Our thoughts something
(08:48):
entirely separate from physical reality? BecauseI don't know about you, but I
don't feel like a collection of atoms. I feel like a unified spiritual being.
I feel emotions, So why doesthat happen? Here's a thought for
you. Either everything is conscious ornothing is conscious. Now, clearly,
these are existential questions that every humanbeing grapples with. But we have no
(09:11):
clue as to how or why theuniverse as we know it exists. We
are probably missing something very important,but we don't even know where to start
looking for that missing piece, oreven the right questions that we should be
asking along the way. Elon Muskis hopeful that this is something AI can
help us figure out, hence theXAI mission statement. Interestingly enough, if
(09:35):
we go back a few years toone of Elon's previous appearances on the same
Lex Friedman podcast, Lex wanted toknow what question Elon would ask a generalized
artificial superintelligence, and Elon said,what is outside the simulation? Elon currently
believes that there will be a pointwhen GROC can answer such questions. Grok
(09:56):
is currently running as a limited betarelease and is only available to a select
few people, but there is asign up sheet for anyone who wants to
become a beta tester. It's limitedto verified users on the X platform,
and Elon says that priority is beinggiven according to the length of time you
have been verified on the platform.So the first people who decided to give
(10:18):
Elon eight bucks a month for ablue check mark will be repaid with the
first public access to GROC after sometime. As a limited release, an
updated beta version of GROC will beintegrated into the X platform, but only
for users who are signed up forthe Premium Plus tier, which is now
sixteen bucks a month. GROC iscurrently only trained on text information, but
(10:41):
XAI promises that both image recognition andaudio recognition is coming soon. Elon has
already set the expectation that GROC isgoing to improve very quickly and will be
updated frequently. Elon says the AIwill be way better in a few months
and excellent in six months, soin theory, by next summer, Rock
should be relatively equivalent to chat GPTin terms of general capability, but these
(11:07):
are going to be two entirely differentproducts, and again that's not just because
grock is allowed to say curse wordsand talk about drugs and stuff. But
we're going to find out what happenswhen you train an AI on social media.
In the past, Open Ai hadsome access to Twitter, but Elon
cut that off as soon as hetook over. So will Grock seemingly have
(11:28):
access to everything on X everywhere,all at once. If Twitter sorry,
X is supposed to be the globaltown hall, then does GROC become the
collective consciousness of the human race?And more importantly, is that something we're ready for
Elon Musk has released a brand newartificial intelligence into the world. Its name
is Grok, and in many waysthis is a very familiar AI application,
but in many more ways, Grockis unlike anything we have seen before.
The Grok chatbot is the first everproduct released from Elon Musk's newest company,
(00:23):
Xai. This is a venture thatElon first began shortly after his acquisition of
the platform formerly known as Twitter butnow only referred to as x because right
around the same time that Elon Muskwas dropping a sink on the reception desk,
his former colleagues at OpenAI were droppingthe tech bomb of the decade chat
(00:44):
GPT. You might have heard ofit. Elon was one of the original
founders of OpenAI, and along witha small cohort of other very rich people,
he seeded the organization with the intentionthat it would grow into a nonprofit
AI research lab that was fully transparentand open source. With their work that
(01:06):
didn't exactly pan out. Elon resignedfrom the board at OpenAI shortly before the
company accepted a massive cash infusion fromMicrosoft and rewrote their business model into a
for profit, closed door organization.In the time since then, Elon Musk
has been slowly building his own artificialintelligence ambitions with Tesla, and we've seen
(01:29):
the autopilot's self driving program evolve fromsimple code based cruise control into a computer
vision based neural network that can navigatethe intricacies of city driving alongside human traffic.
Tesla full self driving has quickly becomeone of the leading examples of real
world artificial intelligence. AI has becomesuch a major part of Tesla that they
(01:52):
now host an annual event aimed specificallyat recruiting new talent into the company's AI
division. But Xai is something entirelydifferent. Founded in early twenty twenty three
by Elon and a very small groupof AI pioneers, this company is aiming
to change the world in a waythat is going to have a pretty big
(02:15):
impact on just about everybody. Allright, let's talk about our new friend
GROC. What the hell's a groc? Well, according to an xai blog
post, Groc is an AI modeledafter The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
so intended to answer almost anything andfar harder even suggest what questions to ask.
(02:37):
In more simple words, it's likechat GPT, but weirder. The
similarity is that they're both chatbots.You can ask the AI a question and
it will write out an answer foryou. That's pretty simple, but one
key difference. As XAI puts it, GROC is designed to answer questions with
a bit of wit and has arebellious streak. It will also answer spicy,
(02:59):
quid questions that are rejected by mostother AI systems, so the AI
has clearly inherited some of the edgelordgenes from Elon. But in addition to
writing swear words and making dirty jokes, GROC has one major superpower that other
AI tools do not. GROC canpull real time data straight from the X
(03:22):
platform, So in many ways,GROC has instant access to everything that is
happening everywhere in the world as longas people are writing about it on X.
We know that OpenAI recently hooked upchat GBT to the Internet through Microsoft's
Being search engine, but this isnot really the same thing. In order
(03:42):
for chat GPT to find new information, it has to be published and cataloged
on a website. It needs acertain level of search engine optimization. But
GROCK is just reading from posts onx as they happen which could be potentially
very powerful but a dangerous we'll getto that in a bit. So we
(04:02):
know that Groc's function is essentially aCHATGBT rival, But what's with the name?
Elon says that Grock is modeled afterHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, most
obviously the passage in the book wherethey ask a supercomputer to tell them the
answer to life, the universe,and everything after seven point five million years
(04:23):
of processing, the computer responds fortytwo. But the term Grock is actually
lifted from the Robert A. Heinlendnovel Stranger in a Strange Land. This
was published in the early sixties andit's a science fiction story about the first
human born in a Mars colony whovisits the Earth and starts his own religious
movement, essentially a cult, andthings don't work out very well. It's
(04:47):
a good book and it was veryinfluential during the Hippie movement. In the
novel, the word groc literally meansto drink, but the author also makes
this a hominem a way, theword with multiple meanings, so in the
story, grock also means to comprehendor to be one with the latter meanings
(05:08):
were quickly adopted by San Francisco hippies, where to groc essentially referred to having
an insightful conversation, and that eventuallyfiltered down to computer programmers and hackers,
as some of those hippies went onto get jobs and found Silicon Valley.
The amazing thing about Xai is thatthe company has only really existed since April
(05:29):
twenty twenty three, and they alreadyhave their first beta release out into the
world. The company says that thecurrent version of their chatbot, groc Ie,
is the best that they could dowith two months of training. According
to some benchmark results posted by thecompany on their blog, grock is already
performing somewhere in between open AI's GPTthree point five and GPT four. These
(05:54):
are the large language models that theChat GPT application operates on, so basically
this tells us that grock is alreadybetter than the Chat GPT from one year
ago when it first launched, butnot as good as the current version of
Chat GPT, which has been upgradedto use GPT four. So that is
very impressive progress and it speaks toElon Musk's ability to find the right people
(06:17):
at the right time and put themto task. The team at xai is
just sixteen people, but these aresome of the top AI researchers and developers
in the world. One of thoseindividuals, Greg Yang, wrote on x
last few weeks have been some ofthe best times of my life. When
a small, motivated group of worldclass people all push in the same direction,
(06:41):
they punch way above their weight.I really did not appreciate this enough
a year ago, but now onlythis guy, not the universe, is
the limit. So clearly a verysatisfied XAI employee. According to the company's
mission statement, XAI is working onbuilding artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery.
(07:02):
We are guided by our mission toadvance our collective understanding of the universe.
So that's kind of vague, butat the same time a pretty massive
statement, and it all feeds backinto Elon Musk's seemingly updated stance on artificial
intelligence. Around ten years ago,Elon was pretty well known for raising the
(07:23):
red flag about AI development. Hewas afraid of the consequences of a powerful
AI getting out of control and turningon humanity. The middle ground was Elon
founding open Ai with the idea thatif AI development was inevitable, then he
at least wanted it to be donein a safe and transparent manner. And
(07:43):
now Elon is shooting his shot attaking over the entire AI industry. So
we've come a long way. Elonwas recently talking about XAI on the Lex
Friedman podcast and he shared some veryinteresting thoughts about what he hoped to achieve
with artificial intelligence. A lot ofit comes back to this idea of understanding
(08:03):
the universe. Elon told Lex wedon't know the meaning of life, but
the more we can expand the scopeand scale of consciousness, either digital or
biological consciousness, the more we areable to ask about the answer that is
the universe. To sum up theirconversation, it's basically, we still have
no idea about the nature of ourown existence. What is a thought?
(08:26):
What is consciousness? Technically, youare just a collection of atoms, and
those atoms are made up of quirksand leptons that have existed since the beginning
of the universe, whatever that was, if there was even a beginning.
So how do these seemingly random combinationsof cosmic elements suddenly begin to form thoughts?
On what plane? Of reality?Do thoughts exist? Our thoughts something
(08:48):
entirely separate from physical reality? BecauseI don't know about you, but I
don't feel like a collection of atoms. I feel like a unified spiritual being.
I feel emotions, So why doesthat happen? Here's a thought for
you. Either everything is conscious ornothing is conscious. Now, clearly,
these are existential questions that every humanbeing grapples with. But we have no
(09:11):
clue as to how or why theuniverse as we know it exists. We
are probably missing something very important,but we don't even know where to start
looking for that missing piece, oreven the right questions that we should be
asking along the way. Elon Muskis hopeful that this is something AI can
help us figure out, hence theXAI mission statement. Interestingly enough, if
(09:35):
we go back a few years toone of Elon's previous appearances on the same
Lex Friedman podcast, Lex wanted toknow what question Elon would ask a generalized
artificial superintelligence, and Elon said,what is outside the simulation? Elon currently
believes that there will be a pointwhen GROC can answer such questions. Grok
(09:56):
is currently running as a limited betarelease and is only available to a select
few people, but there is asign up sheet for anyone who wants to
become a beta tester. It's limitedto verified users on the X platform,
and Elon says that priority is beinggiven according to the length of time you
have been verified on the platform.So the first people who decided to give
(10:18):
Elon eight bucks a month for ablue check mark will be repaid with the
first public access to GROC after sometime. As a limited release, an
updated beta version of GROC will beintegrated into the X platform, but only
for users who are signed up forthe Premium Plus tier, which is now
sixteen bucks a month. GROC iscurrently only trained on text information, but
(10:41):
XAI promises that both image recognition andaudio recognition is coming soon. Elon has
already set the expectation that GROC isgoing to improve very quickly and will be
updated frequently. Elon says the AIwill be way better in a few months
and excellent in six months, soin theory, by next summer, Rock
should be relatively equivalent to chat GPTin terms of general capability, but these
(11:07):
are going to be two entirely differentproducts, and again that's not just because
grock is allowed to say curse wordsand talk about drugs and stuff. But
we're going to find out what happenswhen you train an AI on social media.
In the past, Open Ai hadsome access to Twitter, but Elon
cut that off as soon as hetook over. So will Grock seemingly have
(11:28):
access to everything on X everywhere,all at once. If Twitter sorry,
X is supposed to be the globaltown hall, then does GROC become the
collective consciousness of the human race?And more importantly, is that something we're ready for
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