Elon Musk's rogue Grok chatbot became a cautionary AI tale
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Elon Musk released the newest artificial intelligence model from his company xAI on Wednesday night. In an hour-long public reveal session, he called the model, Grok 4, “the smartest AI in the world” and claimed it was capable of getting perfect SAT scores and near-perfect GRE results in every subject,
Describing the current time as the "intelligence big bang", Musk admitted Grok 4 "may lack common sense" but it might create new technology "as soon as this year."
This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”
Grok 4 is xAI’s most advanced model yet, but early praise is clashing with old scandals and fresh tests of its limits.
Elon Musk ripped into his own newly improved artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it declared that the biggest threat facing Western civilization was “misinformation.” The billionaire Tesla and xAI chief had announced a new version of Grok on Wednesday night,
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is taking down antisemitic comments and other “inappropriate posts” made by its Grok chatbot, including some praising Adolf Hitler
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The chatbot is giving antisemitic responses and bizarre first-person replies, raising concerns about bias and safety ahead of Grok 4 launch.