Never worry about commie crap like public citations getting in the way of misinformation rhetoric again! (Because the LLM trained on fuckin twitter made it up lmao)
On the flipside for an actually cool non-cucked integration of LLMs with wikipedia check out this post on the localllama where the person shares their project of using a local private llm to search through a local kiwix server instance of wikipedia. https://piefed.social/post/1333130
What’s with his obession with the name “grok” though? Sounds like the sound frog made
trying to be an edgy almost teenager.
grok = caveman?
I always assumed Grok was chosen to hint as his technology background. For which “grok” is a popular term used for reading and understanding, with code in particular.
It’s a Heinlein - “stranger in a strange land” concept. It sort of spread out in nerdery from there where it meant you know and you’re in the know.
To know is to understand fully sort of. He’s doing the literal opposite which is a bit 1984 of him and is also likely another book he’s read and didn’t understand or at least had pretended to have read.
It’s from a book I love, Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. The word is the Martian term for fully understanding something.
That’s really funny. He steals the name Tesla and Grok and when he tries to come up with his own names, we get “X” and “X Æ A-Xii”
those are also names of his SONS, whom he doesnt really care about, just to name them.
All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.
Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.
and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property…
Palantirs were prominently used by Sauron to corrupt and manipulate weaker-willed users, so I have to admit it’s a really apropos use of the name.
And Apple is a fruit smh
A biblical reference to the fruit of the tree of knowledge and how man took a bite of the fruit (but not acknowledging that it was woman who took the first bite)
What an obscure reach to make.
It’s been part of deep nerd culture for decades, but not really pop culture.
Maybe he overheard it from somewhere.
I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)
Share water, brother!
Your thirst is mine, my water is yours! … Oh shit, wrong sci-fi world I think my bad
I believe it is from the book stranger in a strange land. Its meaning is like to deeeeply understand, I think.
Not deeply but completely and absolutely.
That’s fucking hilarious for an LLM.
You got the original explanation, but grok was taken up by computer nerds way back in the day. It’s not merely understanding a thing, in the book or the slang. To grok means to completely wrap your head around the subject, not merely surface level understanding, really feel it down deep.
As to Musk’s obsession? He wants to be seen as the cool kid, the smart hacker, the guy who groks what’s really going on.
Honestly it’s a great name for a search engine or AI. And now he’s actively ruining it like everything else he touches.
BTW, Stranger in a Strange Land is an excellent book. I laugh when people call Heinlein a fascist for writing Starship Troopers. “So, how about that hippie book?” Heinlein’s books examine various government and economic systems, “What if it worked this way?”
Media literacy is at an all time low, especially among terminally online “activists”.
Doesn’t anyone remember groklaw? I feel like sometimes only I remember the early Internet anymore…
I fully expect the SCO case to be resurrected at some point in this timeline. Then they’ll know.
Funny you say that. In Serbia, they say the noise a pig makes is “grok”. My wife burst out laughing when she found out the name of Elon’s AI.
Imagine some Saudi prince launches an AI called Oink, and then sets up Oinkepedia