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it's banking. But not as you know it.
It's better. So Elon Musk's company X,
previously Twitter, is extending the availability of the Grok
chat bot. It's kind of it's ChatGPT
competitor to a broader base of subscribers.
Initially this was restricted to the premium plus tier.
Musk recently announced on X that Grok will now also be
available and accessible to all Premium subscribers, not just
Premium Plus anymore. Now this is a shift that aims to
bolster the platform's competitiveness against Chap,
GPT, and Anthropics Clod. It might also be an attempt to
increase the subscriber count on X misreports of declining user
engagement. Now recent findings by Censor
Tower, as reported by NBC News, show a notable decrease in X's
usage within the United States. The platform witnessed an 18%
drop in user activity year over year as of February, with a 23%
decline following Musk's acquisition of the platform.
Now, X's financial health appears to be affected by Musk's
adversarial stance towards advertisers as well.
And Sensor Towers analysis revealed a significant reduction
in advertising spend by top US brands on X since 2022.
Now by integrating the AI. Chat by X.
Aims to retain its user base, potentially averting migration
to other social platforms like Blue Sky, Macedon or even
Instagram's threads, the latter having rapidly amassed over 130
million monthly users by the end of 2023.
Of course, this is powered by meta.
Which? Has extensive resources and is
also linked to your Instagram account, so they're kind of
instant user base through Instagram now.
Musk has not specified an exact date for Grok's broader rollout,
but he indicated that it would be activated for all Premium
subscribers quote later this week.
The Premium subscription is priced at $8 per month or $84
annually on the web and Grok stands out by tackling topics
generally avoided by other chat bots, including controversial
political theories and conspiracies in a manner must
describes as having a quote rebellious streak.
Now a key feature of Grok is its exclusive access to real time
data from XA, capability not shared by its competitors.
This access enables Grok to provide timely responses based
on the latest information available on the platform.
Xai, Musk's AI venture, is behind the development of Grok,
leveraging a substantial array of GPU's and a mix of web source
data and also human assistance feedback to refine the chat bots
capabilities. And despite its advancements,
Grok, like other AI models, is susceptible to inaccuracy,
sometimes disseminating information that's not correct
and incorrect timelines, especially when dealing with
recent news events. And Grok's unique feature of
accessing real time X data, combined with its Internet
browsing capabilities, allows it to offer up to date information
on various topics, setting it apart from other chat box like
ChatGPT, now the forthcoming Grok 1.5.
Remember ChatGPT is on version 4.
Version five is coming out soon. It promises enhancements though
Grok 1.5, including the ability to summarize discussions and
suggest content for posts. According to Musk statements on
X Spaces conversation recently. Now access to Grok requires an X
account of course, and a subscription to X Premium, which
is the platform's paid tier and includes ad removal if you get
Premium Plus and some other benefits with Premium Plus as
well. We just need Premium to get
Grok. If you have ChatGPT, this is my
I'm going to do a little side note here.
If you have ChatGPT and you have maybe another chat bot that you
use maybe Google's Bard or or sorry Gemini.
Now I don't see a reason for grok to exist in your platform
on in your wallet of of chat bots here.
ChatGPT does a bunch of stuff, Gemini does a bunch of stuff.
The only thing that grok really has is the access to real time
data from X, and most of the time you can just search for
that with the search bar. Even the search functionality on
X is not that good. You can search for the things
that you're looking for. Now, if you do something like
show me the latest news on X about whatever it is about
SpaceX or Tesla or whatever, they may be able to give you
some more up to date information.
But very soon after that ChatGPT or Gemini will be able to give
you the same information. So it's not going to be up to
the second on those other platforms, but it'll be
relatively fast. Most people don't need things up
to the second. Most people just wait a couple
hours until everybody catches up.
Not a big deal unless you're a reporter or something like that
that needs information immediately.
So if you're one of those people, though, you know, get
the get the grok, get the premium account an X, check it
out. I have grok right now.
And it's so like, I'm going to be honest with you.
It's OK. It's OK.
I wouldn't pay money for it if I didn't need the blue check mark,
you know, for my account here. So that's a that's a little
aside, you know? So make up your decisions, You
know, take whatever I said with a grain of salt and it's my own
personal opinion, but I want to make this show more beneficial
to you by giving a little bit of insight into the things we
talked about here as opposed to just reporting the news.
Sometimes the show's going to be transforming a little bit.
They're still going to be the the news, by the way.
And this is another little side for you, but it's still going to
be the news every day. But there's going to be more of
an open discussion. So the Discord, we're I'm going
to make a discord specifically for this channel, for this
podcast, and also I'm going to have the link to that soon and I
will have more talking points of discussions on there.
It's going to be great. I'm setting it all up right now
and it's it's going to be really cool.
So look out for that in the future.
But hey, remember, Grok has a fun mode.
It's more informal, it's edgy, and it's different than regular
mode. So regular mode gives you
grounded responses, but both of them can give you errors.
So fun mode is kind of a it's like an edgy teen.
Think about it like that. An edgy teen that's like trying
to be bad. That's what Grok's fun note is
like. It doesn't.
It doesn't seem to be fun. It just seems to be kind of
snarky, you know? And I've used the Fun Mode a
bunch of times. And like I said before, it's OK.
It doesn't. It's not ground breaking.
It's not going to change the world.
But Grok's Fun Mode is, you know, there's some fun things
that happen. It's bold.
It's unfiltered, though, which is cool.
And it's raised concerns due to the propagation of falsehoods as
well. And Vice reported on us at
length at length, it's. So check out there's a VICE
article about this. There's some videos about it.
So go search those up. But so they're falsehoods with
that and also the regular grok. So just like any other chat bot,
there's some things that sneak in.
So now Grok's regular mode, though it offers responses that
are generally more accurate and less controversial.
Pretty, pretty normal stuff, addressing sensitive topics with
a more fast fact based approach. So if you want something that's
kind of like, eh, fly by the seat of your pants, go for the
fun mode. If you want something that's
more grounded in reality, go with the regular mode.
And Musk was trying to make Grok maximum truth seeking AI.
That's what he wants, and he's critiqued other models for
perceived political correctness, and he doesn't want Grok to be
like that at all, he just wants it to speak its mind.
But Grok's responsive has shown a tendency towards progressive
and libertarian viewpoints anyway, so I don't think Elon's
really doing the best that he can do with this right now.
But 1.52 point, O3 point, O, etcetera, We'll probably get it
to where it where he wants it to be.
But the decision to make this more widely available to X
subscribers could be a crucial move in maintaining X's
relevance and the. User base and.
Money for the platform since there's dwindling engagement and
competitive pressures from other social networks like threads
etcetera and also other chat bots.
So we're going to see what happens.
It's a little bit less expensive than ChatGPT or open AI.
It's $8 a month if you subscribe on the web.
So if you need a chat bot that bad you need real time data that
bad from you know Twitter data. It's not real time data from
across the web but it's Twitter data or X data.
Sorry check out Grok I I'm I'm a proponent of competition in this
field. I think all AI chat bots should,
you know compete against each other.
All these companies should compete against each other and
in the end you know who wins. We do because we get the best
chat bot to use for whatever purpose that we need it for.
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