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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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(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.