xAI said in a blog post it took inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy sci-fi novel by British author Douglas Adams. “Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!” xAI said in the post.
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI unveiled a chatbot called Grok for some users of X, which he suggested has a sarcastic sense of humor similar to his own. Musk, who has owned X — formerly known as Twitter — for a year, said Grok is trained by having “real-time access” to information from the platform.
Musk said Grok is still in the early stages of testing but will soon come to X’s Premium+ service in the US, which includes features such as the blue checkmark for $16 a month.
Musk is a co-founder of OpenAI, but stepped down as chairman five years ago partly over disagreements about the company’s direction.
A targeted attack
Two days after the developer conference, OpenAI experienced large-scale outages to its services, which it later attributed to potential targeted attacks on its servers. The company wrote on its website Wednesday evening that it is “dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack.”
A DDoS attack, or distributed denial of service, typically refers to an attacker that floods an internet server to disrupt normal traffic.
Users on Wednesday were unable to access all of OpenAI’s tools and services and received a message that the platform was at capacity.
The company told CNN no user information was compromised.
More on AI
Major tech companies continue to double down on AI, too. Reuters reported Amazon is investing millions of dollars on training an AI codenamed “Olympus,” which is expected to have double the amount of “parameters,” or building blocks that make AI smarter than OpenAI’s GPT-4 model
In addition, YouTube is testing AI tools that answers questions about content, makes recommendations and summarizes topics in the comment sections of videos.
Chandrasekaran said that while not all companies will create huge AI models, many will continue to build smaller and specific ones to improve their products, automate tasks and gain a competitive edge.
