Grok Is Good, Actually, and a Tesla Recall

12/19/23 • 30 min

When Elon Musk announced his new AI chatbot “Grok” last month, almost everything about it looked like a publicity stunt or a vanity project or both. The product was seemingly built over a matter of months, it was only available to a small group of X users and its chief selling point was Musk’s promise it wouldn’t be constrained by the “woke mind virus.” He boasted that Grok’s chatbot was “based”—a slang term meaning unapologetically right wing—and posted fratty memes meant to emphasize Grok’s dominance over market-leading competitor ChatGPT.

None of this inspired confidence. But with Grok now available to paying users of Musk’s social media platform, the reviews are coming in. And they’re surprisingly positive. This week we are joined by Bloomberg reporter Shirin Ghaffary, who has been testing out the new chatbot and comparing it ChatGPT and Google’s Bard chatbot.

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12/19/23 • 30 min

Elon, Inc. - Grok Is Good, Actually, and a Tesla Recall

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Well, Elon Musk gives now the richest person on the planet. More than half the satellites in space are owned and controlled by one man, starting his own artificial intelligence company. Well, he's a legitimate super genius. I mean legitimate. He says. He's always voted for Democrats, but this year it will be different. He'll vote Republican. There is a reason the US government is so reliant on him. Elon Musk is a scam artist and he's done nothing

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