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So much for the temporary delay or ban on AI. Musk named his AI Grok. I'm surprised by the lack of X:es in the name. Perhaps it would have looked odd considering the name of the Musk AI Company is xAI.
Somewhat unclear if the Grok is referring to Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy Grok or to Heinleins Stranger in a Strange Land. If you take inspiration from Hitchhikers then it shouldn't be that hard to program. If all else fails, the answer to a query is always 42. So I guess we'll know what it will default to when it starts looping hallucinations.
Also Grok should apparently be really into sarcasm, so that will end well and not lead to any kind of misunderstandings or interpretations. None.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
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You're at the end of the road again.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Samantha Wright on Thursday November 09 2023, @12:05PM (12 children)
There's no mention of grokking anything in the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The verb of choice is sass, as in,
With the subsequent explanatory note:
(Score: 3, Funny) by kazzie on Thursday November 09 2023, @01:54PM
They should have called it Grox instead: just like the not-so-friendly race [fandom.com] from the game Spore.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Freeman on Thursday November 09 2023, @02:46PM (7 children)
From the article:
The name isn't from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, rather the chatbot itself was designed with inspiration from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In other words, it's designed to sound sarcastic and witty.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2023, @03:19PM (4 children)
> ...rather the chatbot itself was designed with inspiration from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
That may be the intent of this shameless steal of Heinlein's "grok". However, I think it's much more likely to be the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corp, "Share and Enjoy". Or in other words, crap.
We're a very long way from realizing "the book" -- the electronic HHGTTG that Ford contributes to.
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Thursday November 09 2023, @10:03PM (2 children)
Only because we don't have starships to visit everywhere to write the reviews.
The technology of the book itself is basically wikipedia on a smart phone with "Don't Panic" on the cover.
200 million years is actually quite a long time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2023, @02:42PM (1 child)
> The technology of the book itself is basically wikipedia ...
Or maybe not? This appears to be what happens when you ask ChatGPT about "the book in HHGTTG",
https://www.jailbreakchat.com/prompt/ba121030-01d4-4d64-af83-86fe6d570c93 [jailbreakchat.com]
Or perhaps I'm misinterpreting the source of the grammatically correct but useless text shown at the link?
Using Wikipedia requires some knowledge of the subject matter, to find the right article(s) that can answer your question. The HHGTTG electronic book takes care of all that initial research for you (or at least that's how I interpret Douglas Adams' concept).
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Sunday November 12 2023, @12:42AM
Maybe there was some AI involved, but every HHTTG book interlude in the TV show or books that I remember started with "The HHTTG had this to say about ..." implying to me that you had to give it specific subjects and it would then return an entry on that subject. Basically wikipedia but more snarky.
Remember, this was written in the seventies and eighties of last century. Wikipedia on a smart phone would have been a far out science fiction idea back then.
200 million years is actually quite a long time.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday November 10 2023, @03:03PM
Considering all that it lead to was the destruction of Earth, again. I'm going with the HGTTG was about as useful as ChatGPT.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 09 2023, @08:40PM
A (chat-)bot from the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I think it must be extremely depressed …
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Samantha Wright on Thursday November 09 2023, @10:50PM
Right; I was responding to the rather dreadful editorialization in the summary:
As there is no such thing as a "Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy Grok," there is no ambiguity.
The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2023, @03:27PM
The real question is: can a hoopy drive a hooptie and still be a hoopy?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Thursday November 09 2023, @06:25PM (1 child)
I would say given Musk's apparent obsession with going to Mars, the term is lifted from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land". I think he imagines himself as a modern incarnation of "Jubal Harshaw".
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Thursday November 09 2023, @10:05PM
He doesn't think he's "Jubal Harshaw", he thinks he is "Delos D. Harriman".
200 million years is actually quite a long time.