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Grok AI, developed by Elon Musk’s company called the xAI in 2 months and designed to answer spicy queries that other AI tools reject, was announced on November 4, 2023. Although Grok AI is still a product in the BETA, it has already managed to beat the GPT-3.5 model in some benchmarks.
In this article, we will examine Grok AI and discover what it promises.
If you’re ready, let’s start!
TL;DR
- Grok AI is an AI chatbot developed by the xAI with a unique output style.
- Grok AI utilizes online data up to Q3 2023 and real-time data from the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) when producing output.
- Since Grok AI uses Twitter data to generate output, it may generate false or hallucinated output.
- Although Grok AI is better than the GPT-3.5 language model, it has lower performance than GPT-4.
- Since Grok AI is still in BETA, you need to have a verified X platform account and fill out the application form to access it.
- If you are looking for a conversational AI that can use the entire internet’s data, including Twitter, to generate output, ZenoChat by TextCortex is the way to go.
Grok AI Review
Grok AI is an AI chatbot developed by the xAI to answer almost any question with humor, sarcasm, jokes, and personality. Although Grok AI generates responses with dark humor, it remains loyal to the law and ethical rules. One of the shining features of Grok AI is its ability to respond to questions that other AI chatbots refuse to answer.
How does Grok AI Work?
Grok AI uses online training data up to Q3 2023 and the database of the X platform, formerly Twitter, to generate output. In other words, when you ask a question or give a command to Grok AI, it will respond to you with the information it gets from the X platform. Using the X platform as a dataset means utilizing an extensive source of information from various cultures and mindsets.
Is Grok AI Better Than ChatGPT?
If we compare Grok AI with the GPT-3.5 model, it is possible to say that the Grok-1 large language model is slightly better. According to the xAI’s research, the Grok-1 large language model has higher scores in MMLU, GSM8k, HumanEval and MATH benchmarks than GPT-3.5. However, although the Grok-1 model is slightly better than the GPT-3.5, it is not yet at a level to compete with the GPT-4 large language model. The GPT-4 large language model has far higher scores in benchmarks than Grok-1.
How to Access Grok AI?
Although the xAI team uses the phrase “serve as a powerful research assistant for anyone” when introducing Grok AI, you cannot experience Grok AI if you do not have an X (formerly Twitter) account. To experience Grok AI and join its early access program, you must apply to the waitlist with your verified X account. Also, it is only accessible in the US. In the near future, it will become available for X Premium subscribers. In any case, you must have a verified X platform account.
Grok AI Capabilities
Grok AI is an AI chatbot powered by the Grok-1 large language model and capable of generating sarcastic output. Grok AI comes with capabilities that differentiate itself from other AI chatbots. Let’s take a closer look at the capabilities of Grok AI.
Grok AI Trained Data and Web Access
Grok AI has been trained with internet data until Q3 2023 and data provided by AI tutors. For this reason, it is possible to chat about recent topics with Grok AI. It does not yet have an independent web search feature, but the xAI team is working on it.
However, according to the xAI’s article, Grok AI has real-time knowledge of the world via the X (formerly Twitter) platform. In other words, although Grok AI cannot yet search internet data, it can generate output using the data of the X platform. Since the Twitter platform is not full of official information sources, this may cause Grok AI to generate hallucinate or misinformative output. For this reason, we recommend that you always double-check the responses you receive from Grok AI.
Grok AI Performance and Benchmarks
The xAI team used benchmarks such as HumanEval, MATH and MMLU, which measure the performance of LLMs, to evaluate the Grok-1 large language model.
According to the xAI’s research, the Grok-1 large language model has a score of 63.2% in the HumanEval benchmark, which measures its performance in coding and reasoning tasks. Although this score is higher than the 57.1% score of the GPT-3.5, it is significantly lower than the PaLM 2, GPT-4, and Claude 2.1 models.
The xAI team used the MMLU benchmark to evaluate the language skills of the Grok-1 large language model. The Grok-1 model has a score of 73% in the MMLU benchmark. Although this score is higher than GPT-3.5 and close to Claude 2.1 and PaLM 2, it is significantly lower than GPT-4.
Grok AI’s Sense of Humor
Grok AI is designed to answer questions and queries that other AI tools reject or cannot answer. In other words, Grok AI can tell jokes, use sarcasm in its responses, and use unethical sentences in its outputs, making conversations more enjoyable and breezier. The xAI team stated this feature of Grok AI in their article as “please don’t use it if you hate humor”.
Moreover, Grok AI self-trains by having conversations with individuals and offers a personalized and unique experience for each user. This feature allows Grok AI to analyse the sense of humor of different cultures and use it in its outputs. If you enjoy consuming dark comedy, also known as dark humor, you may like Grok AI’s output style!
Safety and Ethics
Although Grok AI is an AI chatbot developed to use sarcasm and jokes in its outputs, it avoids generating illegal output by sticking to the law. In other words, while Grok AI generates engaging and sarcastic output, it does not provide dangerous content.
ZenoChat – A Better Alternative You Need
If you are looking for a more customizable AI to help you complete your everyday tasks, ZenoChat by TextCortex is designed for you. ZenoChat is a conversational assistant powered by GPT-4 and Sophos-2 language models. It is available as a web application and browser extension. The ZenoChat browser extension is integrated with 30,000 websites and apps, so it can accompany you anywhere and anytime.
Features
ZenoChat is designed to help you complete a variety of text-based tasks in a conversational and interactive format. ZenoChat can generate text in 25+ languages, rewrite your existing texts or change their tone of voice. You can also fix the grammar & spelling of your existing texts by giving a prompt to ZenoChat.
ZenoChat comes with a web search feature that allows it to produce output using the latest internet data. ZenoChat’s web search feature has 7 different options that allow it to focus on specific sources: Scholar, Twitter, News, Wikipedia, Reddit, YouTube, and the Internet. For example, by selecting the Twitter option from ZenoChat’s web search feature, you can ensure that it uses only up-to-date Twitter data when generating output.
Build Your Own Conversational AI
ZenoChat comes with two features that allow you to train it for different purposes; Knowledge Bases and Individual Personas. Using these features, you can build a co-assistant that will help you with your writing tasks and an AI companion that will facilitate your research process. Whatever your purpose, you can tailor ZenoChat to suit your needs.
You can adjust ZenoChat’s output style, personality, and tone of voice with our “Individual Personas” feature. By using this feature, you can create your own digital twin to use for your writing tasks. Our “Knowledge Bases” feature allows you to upload or connect the datasets that ZenoChat will use to generate output. Thanks to this feature, you can summarize your documents of hundreds of pages with a single prompt or chat with them.
Ask Zeno Instead?
If you are looking for an alternative to long and tedious search engine sessions, you can consider trying ZenoChat’s newest feature called, Ask Zeno Instead. This feature allows ZenoChat to analyse the results of the keywords you enter into search engines using web access. Afterwards, ZenoChat summarizes all the information it gets, preserving the key points, and generates it as output.
