That isn't a picture of grok.
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It has Musk's stench all over it. I can't help but want to dislike it.
I don't think Musk had much to do with the weights generated. He paid for and helped roll out the cluster it was trained on, and he set the priorities. "Be maximally truth seeking" but there is no way he had time to curate the data or even design the over-all architecture. Thus, the actual AI isn't particularly Musk-like. It is actually quite similar to other AI of similar complexity.
The difference is a subtle shift in the data used (a bit less woke (whatever that means any more)) and the way it perfoms search.
Musk himself doesn't have any magic answers as to what is truth and what isn't. He is good with physics and engineering, but kinda dumb in other areas. So what you get is an AI that is better than average at searching the web to give the answer du jour.
It's a tool, it is good at its job or not irrespective or not of who made it.
For coding I prefer Claude 3.7 and Chatgpt 3o (I think, I can't keep them straight) but I have tried grok 4. I don't have money to throw around.
You have the zap I sent you. Sit on it a few more months and you'll have funds for all the LLMs!
I have lots of random questions about llms, but will hold off until I've tried some a bit more and have something semi-intelligent to say
