I had a two-hour long conversation this morning with Grok 3, the free version of the AI developed at Elon Musk's social media company, X (formerly Twitter). My initial question regards Musk's recent "tweet" about the idea of using Grok 4 to "revise and correct" human knowledge, which I viewed as creepily Orwellian. The conversation (it seemed eerily like a conversation, although not entirely without a slightly "uncanny valley" vibe) covered the nature of knowledge, my objections to the Orwellian aspects of Elon's post, what Elon's true intentions might be, and then a long exploration of specific projects that might not only demonstrate the capabilities and trustworthiness of an AI model, but leverage AI for academic research (these will be covered in a future post).
At the end of two hours, I ran into a limit of the free version, which prompted me to consider a subscription -- but they're not cheap! So I'm turning to my readers and viewers, to see if you're interested in me buying a subscription, exploring what can be done with Grok 4, and reporting on it here? If you ARE interested, consider a modest contribution to my "coffee" page at https://buymeacoffee.com/makinghistory. Thanks!
Sorry Dan, I am not interested in doing anything that furthers Musk's X or Grok! Elon has done huge damage to his brand with his chainsaw actions in DOGE! Such disregard to people, including his own daughter, is contemptible! There are several other AI systems to use instead.