Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

It’s been said here before, but xAI isn’t really in the running to be on the leading edge of LLMs. It’s serving a niche of users who don’t want to use “woke” models and/or who are Musk sycophants.

> It’s been said here before, but xAI isn’t really in the running to be on the leading edge of LLMs

As of yesterday, it is. Sure it’ll be surpassed at some point.

Actually the recent fails with Grok remind me of the early fails with Gemini, where it would put colored people in all images it generated, even in positions they historically never were in, like German second world war soldiers.

So in that sense, Grok and Gemini aren't that far apart, just the other side of the extreme.

Apparently it's very hard to create an AI that behaves balanced. Not too woke, and not too racist.

> Apparently it's very hard to create an AI that behaves balanced. Not too woke, and not too racist.

Well, it's hard to build things we don't even understand ourselves, especially about highly subjective topics. What is "woke" for one person is "basic humanity" for another, and "extremism" for yet another person, and same goes for most things.

If the model can output subjective text, then the model will be biased in some way I think.

Fewer people want to use it. You need to have at least minimal trust in the company that creates an AI to consider using it.

Even if the flimsy benchmark numbers are higher doesn't necessarily mean it's at the frontier, it might be that they're just willing to burn more cash to be at the top of the leaderboard. It also benefits from being the most recently trained, and therefore, most tuned for benchmarks.

Great, have you tried it ?

I gave it my compiler research problem and it gave me a direction that not only worked, but required me to learn new math.

Agreed.

Whether it is better does not depend on whether people want to use it though.