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Grok Now Available as Standalone App in the US
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I wonder how good it is... the few times I've tried it in the past, it seemed a little worse than ChatGPT but a little better than Gemini. 🤔
Or maybe they thought it through and came to a different conclusion than you did.
Man, the MDS is strong with this thread!
I don’t love the guy but his companies are putting out world-changing tech at a faster rate than anyone. Grok is coming along very quickly, and is the only AI with a constant stream of live, up-to-date information. It is uniquely useful, and people who slam it without even trying it while thinking they are doing the world a favor are really just showing their ignorance on an ultimately meaningless internet forum.
I don’t love the guy but his companies are putting out world-changing tech at a faster rate than anyone. Grok is coming along very quickly, and is the only AI with a constant stream of live, up-to-date information. It is uniquely useful, and people who slam it without even trying it while thinking they are doing the world a favor are really just showing their ignorance on an ultimately meaningless internet forum.
Why would anyone have any concern with this piece of generative AI, considering the people involved, the position of power they are soon to be in & the weight that the news media, people in fields of expertise and politicians place on the platform for public statements? Sure it’ll all be grand.
It's wild that Apple can tell you what apps/software are allowed on YOUR phone.
After Eloon's recent megalomaniacal demented rants about the UK I doubt there will be much interest in this in the United Kingdom - corporate and human X users are leaving in droves.
Maybe it's just perfectly rational to not want to put personal and very private information into an app, whose largest shareholder and CEO has over and over demonstrated questionable ethics and behaves like a lunatic in public by insulting people and whole nations many times per day.
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So you are not a fan of Bill Gates, Soros, or Oprah?
Every Tesla owner has already done it. With Tesla I am not the product.
It’s even more wild there are laws and regulations everywhere you look.
I mean that's fair but who said you have to put in personal and private information? I hardly do that with any app.
I'll believe in self-driving, when Tesla takes over liability for the time the car's computer is in charge. Otherwise, it's just yourself ... driving.
Name another car company that has full self driving, where the car can mostly drive in any corner of the US where the manufacturer has accepted liability? Name another car company where the car can actually full self drive in almost every corner of the US.
If you use it mostly as a more sophisticated search engine, or to generate memes, then it's not necessarily very personal. The big promise though is, that LLMs will eventually help you to analyse and work with all your documents and communications. I would not give that kind of access to a company led by an unhinged CEO.
No other car company claims to have solved autonomous driving. Only Tesla has the courage to sell a product for thousands of dollars that does not exist, and apparently can get away with it 🤷♂️.
As I said, I will believe it when there will be a liability shift. It should be easy for Tesla to assume responsibility, if their software is indeed far superior to a human driver.
I wouldn't give that kind of access to any singular company. It doesn't matter if the CEO is hinged or not. If you're running those kinds of operations with LLMs, you should use a more diversified toolset, or only use models that run locally, or with proven open-source security (like Apple intelligence) at least.
Like anything else he is involved in, it is sure to be shoddy. And they used to say he is this generation’s Thomas Edison. What a crock of ****, huh!
Under Jobs personal beefs were always a thing, but under Cook, I don't see any personal beliefs getting in the way of business. That is both a good thing and a bad thing.
Grok, the AI chatbot built into the X (Twitter) social network, is now available as a standalone app in the United States. X owner Elon Musk rolled out Grok in 2023 after developing it under his xAI company, and it has been described as a chatbot that's more casual and "funny" than other chatbots like ChatGPT.
The Grok app description says that Grok is "designed to be maximally truthful, useful, and curious."
xAI has been beta testing Grok as a standalone iOS app in Australia since December, and the app is now expanding to additional countries. Grok will also be available as a web app.
The Grok app features Grok 2, the latest version of the Grok chatbot. App capabilities include image generation and up-to-date information for queries using current X and web data, with xAI suggesting that it is useful for creating images, improving writing, and studying. Grok can be downloaded from the App Store for iPhone and iPad. [Direct Link]
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Musk is a scumbag, who is not the critical thinker behind any of his companies. Just a guy with a lot of money who invests. He is meddling in places that he doesn’t belong, I wouldn’t waste the saliva to spit on him.