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10 remarkable details about Grok

By admin, Aralık 16, 2024

Grok, the artificial intelligence program developed by Elon Musk’s new initiative xAI, was recently opened to all X users. This artificial intelligence, which is currently available completely free of charge through X, functions both as a chatbot similar to ChatGPT and as a generative AI program that can produce images from text, such as Sora and Midjourney. Grok, which attracted a lot of attention with this aspect, suddenly became one of the most popular artificial intelligence programs.

10 Remarkable Details About Grok

Below you can find 10 striking details about this program, which we expect to hear about frequently in the coming period:

1️⃣ It takes its name and character from science-fiction works





Although Elon Musk did not explain exactly where Grok’s name came from its name is Stranger in a Strange Land It is thought that he got it from (Stranger in Strange Lands). In this 1961 science-fiction novel, “grok” is used by the Martians in the sense of “deeply understanding and internalizing something as if it had become a part of oneself.”

On the other hand, the inspiration for Grok’s mischievous personality is a work of science fiction. xAI, its artificial intelligence The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). That’s why Grok has a much more witty personality than similar chatbots like ChatGPT. He can add some humor during conversations. He even gives suggestive answers to questions asked from time to time.

2️⃣ Trained using Twitter data

One of the biggest obstacles to ChatGPT and similar chatbots is that the resources they use to develop their artificial intelligence models belong to others. Because companies like OpenAI train their artificial intelligence through articles and similar content found on the internet. For this reason, they even face copyright lawsuits from time to time. On the other hand, Grok has its own data source. Because xAI uses X data to train Grok. This gives Grok a significant advantage. Grok, which has access to hundreds of millions of posts shared by millions of people from all over the world every day, thus becomes much more familiar with everyday language, slang and innuendos. Moreover, it does this in every language. In addition, it becomes aware of new terms and changing usage patterns in these languages ​​more quickly.

3️⃣ It reaches more up-to-date results than its competitors

Another advantage of Grok using X as its source of information is that it has a more up-to-date source of information. Although ChatGPT is improving itself in this regard day by day, it may occasionally give outdated answers to questions. Because the source he uses to answer this question may be a news article published a few months ago. On the other hand, since Grok constantly scans X and updates its knowledge base, it draws information from the most recent content when answering such questions. This allows it to provide better results, especially about current events.




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However, currently none of these chatbots can access fully up-to-date information. For example, even when ChatGPT and Grok are asked a simple question such as “Who are the players who make the most three-pointers in the NBA?”, they both give the wrong answer. James Harden is in second place at the end of November elevated Even so, both still rank Harden as inferior to Ray Allen. However, between the two, Grok seems to at least give a result closer to the current one.

4️⃣ Multimodal: Processes both visual and text

Grok is a multimodal artificial intelligence program. In other words, it can process both images and text. You can communicate with him entirely in writing, or you can also ask him to analyze the images you share. Additionally, since it has visual processing capability, it can also produce new images based on textual commands.

It is thought that voice communication support will come to Grok in the future as a part of this multimodal structure. In the near future, Grok, like GPT, may begin communicating with people via voice.

5️⃣ Uses xAI’s Aurora model for visuals

xAI, which added visual processing skills to its artificial intelligence program with Grok 2.0, joined forces with Black Forest Labs for this. Under this agreement, developed by Black Forest Labs Flux.1 model integrated into Grok. This model, which has 12 billion parameters, allowed Grok to recognize commands given as text in different languages ​​and produce images based on them.

However, Elon Musk said that Flux.1 was temporary and that they would replace it with their own visual models over time. As a matter of fact, it happened. Last week, Grok was presented with a product developed by xAI. Aurora model added. Grok now produces images using the Aurora model.

6️⃣ No worries about political correctness




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One of the features that Elon Musk most frequently expresses about Grok is that he does not have any concerns about political correctness. If you remember, in the first days when Google released its own artificial intelligence program Gemini, it had a lot of trouble because of this issue, and was even ridiculed on social media for this reason. Gemini, who was programmed not to do anything politically incorrect and to be more inclusive, strayed a little from reality while trying to do this.

Grok, on the other hand, has no such concerns. So much so that Elon Musk did his best to reveal this aspect of Grok in a podcast he recently participated in, directly demonstrating that Grok has no concern with political correctness. (In the video you can find below, the relevant section starts at 1:40.00.)

However, this does not change the fact that Grok operates within certain limits. For example, Grok does not produce sexually explicit content. Likewise, when you try to get information about a subject that could constitute a crime, it avoids giving specific information about it and warns you that it is a crime.

7️⃣ The third version is currently available

Grok was first launched in November 2023. However, when it first came out, only Premium+ subscribers in the USA could use Grok. Other X users could not access this program. In March this year, Premium subscribers were added to Premium+ subscribers. In the same period, a more advanced version of Grok Grok-1.5 has been made available. If in August Grok-2 ve Grok-2 mini came.

When visual processing and web search capabilities were added to Grok-2 approximately two months after its release, Grok became what we know today. Grok was opened to all users and reached a wide user base around the world on December 6.

8️⃣ Outperforms its competitors in performance tests




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The Grok-2 beats both the GPt-4 Turbo and the Claude 3.5 Sonnet in performance tests. It is right behind ChatGPT-4o. xAI’s artificial intelligence outperforms similar bots both in answering questions based on documents and in visual-based tasks. Performance tests such as HumanEval, GSM8k, MMLU, MATH measure how well an artificial intelligence program understands natural language, its problem-solving skills and its ability to give consistent answers.

In addition, another prominent feature of Grok is that it adapts to the people it communicates with. So, as you interact with Grok, it starts to get to know you better and offer its answers in a way that suits you. It is thought that this will be very important, especially when the voice mode comes in the future.

9️⃣ Uses data from all X users unless stated otherwise

Grok automatically processes all X users’ data. This means that you are actually contributing to the development of Grok, unless you have stated otherwise. But if you don’t want to be a part of it, you can stop sharing your data with xAI. For this you need to follow these steps:

  • In X, select “Privacy and Security” from the settings tab,
  • Here, scroll down to the “Data sharing and personalization” section,
  • Click on “Grok and Third Party Collaborations”,
  • Uncheck “Allow interactions, inputs, and results with Grok and xAI, as well as their public data, to be used for training and fine-tuning.”

🔟 Part of Elon Musk’s larger plan

Grok is part of Elon Musk’s larger plans. This is why Musk integrated this artificial intelligence program into X instead of offering it as a separate application. Because he wants to turn X into a kind of super application, which he defines as “the application of everything.” He believes that the way to achieve this is through artificial intelligence. With the help of Grok, X could become much more than a social network in the near future.






















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