Awesome. Possibly the first time I ever heard that on X! Imagine if this platform were geared towards sometimes changing people’s beliefs, and not just to reinforcing them.
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Grok emerges as strong OpenAI competitor benefiting consumers
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I absolutely believe Grōk will be a strong competitor to OpenAI. The main winner here is us, the commons, the end consumer. We will have so many powerful tools to pick from.
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Cruise’s Safety Claims Questioned: Remote Assist Dependency Exposed
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1. Cruise’s omission was massive; every claim about their putative safety has to be rethought.
2. More will come out about how dependent they were on remote assist
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Grok Launch Six Months After Elon’s AI Pause Letter
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Grok, almost six months to the day after Elon signed the pause letter. Too perfect.
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xAI Announces Grok-0: 33B Parameter LLM Approaching LLaMA 2
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Announcing #Grok by @xai @elonmusk v/ @_akhaliq Blog https://
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trained a prototype LLM (Grok-0) with 33 billion parameters. This early model approaches LLaMA 2 (70B) capabilities on standard LM benchmarks but uses only half of its -
Algorithmic engagement optimization versus truth in content
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It’s designed to make you feel something, not designed to reflect the world. Causing you to feel disgust, disbelief, or pity is a victory condition; if it can accomplish that will outcompete a less evocative video of a family eating dinner. “Solve for equilibrium.” as they say.
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Google, Meta, and OpenAI dominate consumer LLM market
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All this means that we will end up with Google, Meta, and potentially OpenAI being the key players in the consumer LLM (e.g., ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) world. /9
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Google and Meta’s Data Advantage in LLM Development
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Meta enjoys the same advantage in terms of being able to use Facebook and Instagram data. This will translate to Google and Meta LLMs being able to serve and respond to general information queries better than LLMs from OpenAI or other start-ups. /4
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Google and Meta’s Competitive Advantage in LLM Training Data
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Google and Meta have a huge advantage here compared to anyone else. Google, because of it's search dominance can get away with crawling every website that wants their search traffic and can use YouTube and potentially Gmail data to train their LLMs. /3
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CEO Layoffs Preferred Over Salary Cuts Legal Concerns
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Layoffs happening already. Cutting salaries can be harder to do legally, so layoffs are CEO's preferred solution…