According to Cointelegraph, the launch of Elon Musk's new artificial intelligence (AI) system, Grok, has caught the attention of Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Altman compared Grok's comedic abilities to that of a grandpa, prompting Musk to respond with a joke he claims was written by Grok. The exchange between the two CEOs may lack the classic nuance of previous Silicon Valley battles, but it adds a touch of general weirdness to the AI chatbot competition.
Altman and Musk have a history together, as both were co-founders at OpenAI before Musk left the company. OpenAI has since achieved success with its GPT-3 and GPT-4 language models, leading to a two-billion-dollar valuation. Musk recently unveiled Grok, an AI chatbot he claims outperforms ChatGPT. Grok is designed to generate humorous texts in the style of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' a celebrated science fiction novel by Douglas Adams.
It remains unclear which AI model is more robust or capable, as there are no standard benchmarks for language models or comedy. While OpenAI has published research papers detailing ChatGPT's abilities, no such details have been provided for Grok beyond claims that it outscores GPT-3.5 on certain metrics.