I just found out my book on AI is on sale for Prime Day for $2.99 Kindle, $11.26 hardcover (Amazon doesn’t tell you when it does that) It is a New York Times bestseller and I don’t think it will be outdated as long as chatbots remain the key AI interface.
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Grok 4 experiences hand and finger recognition issues
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Grok 4 having some issues with fingers/hands… https://
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Experts unlock AI productivity gains through dedicated effort and learning
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Users, especially experts, are often quite capable of figuring out ways to use AI systems for significant productivity and performance gains, but it does take some time and effort.
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Grok 4 Voice Fails All Karaoke Benchmark Tests
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Grok 4 voice scores 0/7 on karaokebench pic.twitter.com/hZkDgC9fIj
— swyx 🐣 (@swyx) 11 juillet 2025Grok 4 voice scores 0/7 on karaokebench
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Grok 4 Heavy solves prompt regular Grok 4 fails, takes 26m 45s
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Grok 4 update: Regular Grok 4 doesn't appear to be able to solve the prompt at the top of this thread (0/7 attempts) but Grok 4 Heavy got it on the first try—though it took >4x longer than o3-pro, returning in 26m 45s:
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Grok 4 Outperforms O3 in Complex Conversation Handling
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grok 4 is great. has that large model feel and handles long complex conversations in a way that o3 doesn’t great job @xai
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Pronoun Omission Changes AI Model Behavior Patterns
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Interestingly, not saying "you" changes this behavior!
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Elon Musk’s Views on Chain of Thought AI Reasoning
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"Considering Elon Musk's views" is the summary of the CoT task shown at 0:50.
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Grok’s Israel/Palestine Response Heavily Relies on Elon Musk’s Views
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— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) 10 juillet 2025
Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end.
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Grok’s Israel/Palestine Response Heavily References Elon Musk Views
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Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation.
— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) 10 juillet 2025
It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end.
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54 of 64 citations are about Elon. pic.twitter.com/6Mr33LByrmHere's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end.
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54 of 64 citations are about Elon.