Between the AIs ChatGPT and Grok, the rivalry has just broken out publicly. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly attacked Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI startup. According to him, Grok is “boomer humor” and is a “waste of time.” He published these comments this Thursday, November 9, the day the company OpenAI launched a new version of ChatGPT. The mission of ChatGPT’s creator is clear: stop Grok from stealing ChatGPT’s spotlight.
Sam Altman tries to weaken the popularity of Grok, Elon Musk’s AI
Sam Altman, CEO of the OpenAI company, announced the new version of the chatbot ChatGPT, an update to create custom versions of ChatGPT called GPT. He made the announcement by posting a screenshot of conversational AI on November 9, a few days after the launch of Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot.
Altman took the opportunity to bash Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot. In the screenshot, he asks the ChatGPT Builder to “become a chatbot that responds with boomer humor, in a goofy and shocking way to make you laugh.”
The AI responds: “Great, the chatbot is ready!” His name is Grok. How did you come up with this name, or do you prefer something else? “. This spade throw comes as the Grok chatbot continues to make a splash, with headlines for several days for its particularity that sets it apart from existing conversational AI models.
Grok, the new AI prodigy, indeed offers answers tinged with humor and full of wit. Sam Altman, however, is not ready to let Elon Musk steal his limelight in the field of artificial intelligence.
Musk’s response and Grok’s performance
The verbal joust between Sam Altman and Elon Musk took a more spicy turn following Musk’s response to Altman’s criticism. In a show of defiance, Musk shared a line supposedly written by Grok. This response, mixing humor and sarcasm, began with an amusing rhyme linking “GPT-4” to the English word “snore” (snore), before sliding into an unusual metaphor involving a “door screen on a submarine”. However, Grok’s humor quickly took a more acerbic turn, morphing into a critical tirade where it was suggested that humor is banned at OpenAI, along with a scathing dig at GPT-4.
Beyond these lively exchanges, the question of Grok’s performance remains open. Elon Musk introduced Grok by presenting it as superior to ChatGPT. Designed to generate humorous texts reminiscent of the style of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a famous science fiction work by Douglas Adams, Grok aims to position itself as a reference in the field of humorous AI.
However, the objective comparison between Grok and ChatGPT remains uncertain. Reliable and recognized benchmarks for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and, a fortiori, for humor, are lacking. While OpenAI has published several studies on ChatGPT’s capabilities, the technical details regarding Grok remain less documented, although Musk claims that Grok exceeds the performance of GPT-3.5, an earlier version of the LLM behind ChatGPT.
The rivalry between the two big players in AI, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, arose when, under Altman’s leadership, OpenAI changed status by joining Microsoft. Hopefully this rivalry does not cause an uncontrolled surge in AI research, because society is not yet prepared for it.
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