Gronkan AI tool available to paying subscribers on X and popular Elon Musk, generated another fake news story based on a joke on Monday.While this latest story about Monday eclipse While not as scary as last week’s inaccurate “news” of an Iranian attack on Israel, it still proves that Grok has a long way to go before it can be a useful and accurate tool.
The headline available to Grok subscribers on Monday was “Sun’s strange behavior: Experts are baffled.” It went on to explain that the sun was “behaving unusually, causing widespread public concern and confusion.”
The news said that despite growing public concerns, “scientific authorities have yet to make a formal statement or explanation about the current state of the sun.” Needless to say, scientists certainly understand what is going on. eclipseThe phenomenon was observed by millions of people across North America on Monday.Although some fringe American politicians believe that the reasons for the solar eclipse are not mysterious may persist.
The tweets that apparently prompted Grok to make this bizarre statement included joke after joke about people wondering where the sun went. It seems that Grok is confused by how many people are making the same joke, and it’s trying to turn these jokes into something we should all be worried about.
“What the hell is happening to the sun right now???” The most popular tweet on Monday was written by comedian Michael Ian Black.
“Something happened to the sun. Don’t want to alarm anyone, but it seems I’m not the only one who noticed this,” joked another X user.
Grok, first launched to a limited batch of users in december But now available to all paying customers, it’s touted by X owner Musk as “wake-resistant AI.” Musk has repeatedly complained that rival AI tools are too “woke,” a sentiment he expressed again during an X Spaces chat on Monday. In fact, Musk claims that woke AI could kill real humans in the future as it attempts to enforce some diversity quotas.
“You can take the example of Google Gemini, which refused to publish … to create a picture of George Washington as a white man,” Musk said on Monday.
“Any historical figure is automatically going to be diverse because it’s programmed to insist on diversity, which sounds, you know, maybe okay at first. But if the AI has that much power, it can actually enforce diversity sex, and decide there are too many of one kind of people or too many of one gender, and then kill enough people until the diversity numbers are programmed to think are correct,” Musk continued.
Whatever you think of Musk’s views on the politics of AI, Grok has gotten into trouble time and time again for using X user’s tweets to create fake news stories, including last week Title generated“Iran attacks Tel Aviv with heavy missiles.” Israel has been on high alert for possible attacks by Iran, even disrupting GPS signals to confuse anyone. incoming missile. But despite Gronk’s insistence, Tel Aviv was not under attack.
Rest assured, the Grok doesn’t make these mistakes of being too arousal or too anti-arousal. Artificial intelligence often makes mistakes because it’s not very good technology yet. Proponents of artificial intelligence have spent much of the past year convincing the public that it is a miraculous advance that will soon achieve the goal of approaching human perception. But don’t hold your breath for that last part.
Generative AI is nothing more than an enhanced version of autocomplete, which means it sounds quite convincing because it mimics the way humans speak. But it doesn’t have the ability to apply complex reasoning or logic. It just remixes words in an admittedly fast and impressive way. But the “brains” behind this technology aren’t thinking, even if it seems that way.
Grok wasn’t expecting the tweets it saw from people joking about the eclipse. It identifies patterns on X and outputs human-sounding text summarizing those patterns.This will only continue to happen, as the only way to rectify the situation is to rely on large armies of humans to work Mechanical Turk Behind the scenes. Grok is not stupid because it is woke or anti-woke. It’s silly because it’s performing a magic trick that has mesmerized countless people.