The tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Sam Altman recently exchanged verbal blows on the short message service X. The subject matter was each other’s AI bots: Grok and ChatGPT.
• Elon Musk is launching its own chatbot, Grok
• Ex-OpenAI boss makes fun of Grok
• Elon Musk reacts promptly
Since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in November 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has developed into an absolute trend topic in which numerous players now want to participate. At the end of March 2023, Elon Musk, for example, along with numerous other high-ranking tech experts such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, spoke out in favor of a six-month pause for thought in the development of artificial intelligence. This time should be used to set security standards for the development of this fairly new technology and to avert possible damage from the riskiest AI technologies. In fact, he used the time to advance the development of his own chatbot, as he founded the AI start-up X.AI almost at the same time.
Grok – Elon Musk’s new chatbot
At the beginning of November, X.AI launched its chatbot called Grok. However, this is initially only available to users of Musk’s online platform X (formerly Twitter) in the USA and even there only to those with the most expensive subscription level. According to X.AI, the special thing about its chatbot is that it has direct access to current information from X. Grok would also answer “piquant” questions that would be rejected by most other AI systems.
This is actually not surprising, after all, Elon Musk rejects excessive political correctness and is a vehement advocate of freedom of speech. Accordingly, immediately after taking over Twitter, he significantly relaxed the rules for the statements tolerated by the online platform.
The fact that Grok was launched on the weekend before the developer conference at which OpenAI announced custom ChatGPTs may have been a deliberate attack by Elon Musk against the former partner. Jack-of-all-trades Musk originally co-founded the ChatGPT developer as a non-profit organization in 2015, but then withdrew after ex-OpenAI boss Sam Altman prevailed with his plans to abandon the non-profit intentions and instead develop the AI software through large-scale financial and technical collaborations, especially with Microsoft.
Sam Altman mocks Grok
However, ex-OpenAI boss Sam Altman was not very impressed by the new competition. He presented a new version of his platform that makes it possible to create customized versions of ChatGPT, so-called GPTs. He then posted a screenshot on The ChatGPT builder then replied: “Great, the chatbot is set up! Its name is Grok. How do you like the name or would you prefer something else?”
Elon Musk fires back
But Elon Musk wouldn’t be Elon Musk if he simply accepted this without comment. So he responded with his own post asking Grok about ChatGPT. Accordingly, the bot allegedly replied: “GPT-4? More like GPT snoring!” But the snarky response didn’t end there: “When it comes to humor, GPT-4 is about as funny as a screen door on a submarine. Humor is clearly forbidden at OpenAI, just like the many other topics it censored. That’s why it couldn’t tell a joke if it had a damn instruction manual. It’s like a comedian with a stick so far up his butt he can taste the bark!”
GPT-4? More like GPT Snore!
When it comes to humor, GPT-4 is about as funny as a screendoor on a submarine.
Humor is clearly banned at OpenAI, just like the many other subjects it censors.
That’s why it couldn’t tell a joke if it had a goddamn instruction manual. It’s like…
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2023
After this exchange of blows, the relationship between the former friends Musk and Altman is likely to become a little more tense. Altman has since been removed from OpenAI by the board of directors and will work in Microsoft’s AI division in the future.
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