AI expert says there is nothing 'particularly surprising' about Musk's 'Grok' bot

Record ID: 1750132

  • Title: AI expert says there is nothing 'particularly surprising' about Musk's 'Grok' bot
  • Date: 6th November 2023
  • Summary: TEMPE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 6, 2023) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) SUBBARAO KAMBHAMPATI, PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND AI AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAYING: "Technically, there isn't anything that is particularly surprising about surprising about this particular LLM. In fact, it's even smaller than the open source one that Facebook has given out. You know, Llama is a 65 billion parameter net model. This one is a 30 billion parameter model."
  • Embargoed: 20th November 2023 23:52
  • Keywords: AI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHATGPT ELON MUSK GRAKBOT X
  • Location: TEMPE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES / SURREY, ENGLAND, UK / INTERNET
  • City: TEMPE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES / SURREY, ENGLAND, UK / INTERNET
  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Science,Internet / World Wide Web
  • Reuters ID: LVA002606806112023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI will be integrated into his social media platform X and also be available as a standalone app, the X owner and Tesla CEO said on Sunday (November 5) in a post.
    The billionaire also said xAI released its first AI model, a bot named Grok, after making it available to all X Premium+ subscribers on Friday (November 3).
    The startup aims to create AI tools that 'assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge.'
    Grok has been designed to answer questions with a bit of wit.
    Subbarao Kambhampati, professor at the School of Computing and AI at Arizona State University, says that there isn't anything that is “particularly surprising” or new about Grok.
    However, while major AI models work diligently to filter out potentially offensive or harmful content, Musk has taken a different stance.
    "There are a few examples that came out since yesterday of people already having access. Basically show that, you know, Grok is much happier to use basically expletives in its answers, etc., which, you know, OpenAI will never allow," Kambhampati saud,
    Regarding its wit, Kambhampati says bots like ChatGPT can do the same, but when prompted.
    “Whereas you know, Elon is saying I'm not going to be your filter, you can do what you want with it,” Kambhampati said.
    (Production: Liliana Salgado)
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