Elon Musk is engaged on ‘Grokipedia’ to dethrone Wikipedia

Elon Musk needs to develop another on-line encyclopedia that’ll go by the identify “Grokipedia.” It’ll be made together with his AI firm xAI, based on the announcement by way of social media put up. The identify is derived from Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, which—based on Musk—is designed to seek for the “reality.”

Musk has been an outspoken critic of Wikipedia, having accused the platform (whose content material is created by customers) of not being goal and having a left-wing political bias.

Shortly earlier than the announcement, his companion David Sacks (AI advisor beneath President Donald Trump) additionally spoke out in opposition to Wikipedia as being “hopelessly biased” and criticized how its materials was getting used to coach synthetic intelligence.

The AI chatbot Grok has additionally made controversial headlines previously, equivalent to for making anti-Semitic statements. Musk and his crew attributed this to defective programming, however analyses present that behind-the-scenes corrections can strongly affect the AI’s responses.

At a look, right here’s what it is best to learn about Grokipedia:

• Grokipedia is at the moment nonetheless in growth part at xAI.
• Grokipedia is meant to be thematically based mostly on Wikipedia, whereas additionally being AI-supported and, based on Musk, “extra goal.”
• The controversies surrounding Grok thus far increase questions on how dependable and unbiased Grokipedia’s content material will really be.

As of proper now, it’s nonetheless unclear whether or not Grokipedia will likely be accessible to the general public, and if that’s the case, when it is going to be launched.

Musk sued Apple and OpenAI as a result of Grok wasn’t topping the charts

Again in August, Musk sued Apple and OpenAI and accused the businesses of conspiring to place his AI merchandise—specifically Grok—at a aggressive drawback. The lawsuit alleged that Apple downgraded different AI apps within the App Retailer and delayed the app evaluate course of.

The background to that is that OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the moment sits on the prime of the iOS App Retailer rankings whereas Grok lingers in twenty second place and X in twenty eighth place. Musk sees this as a distortion of competitors as a result of ChatGPT’s integration in iOS, though Apple had introduced that it will additionally help different AI fashions sooner or later.