Elon Musk has shared directions for the way to flip coca leaves into cocaine in a bid to promote his firm’s new “rebellious” AI chatbot Grok.
The Tesla and X boss unveiled the brand new synthetic intelligence over the weekend, claiming that its entry to real-time knowledge from his social media platform makes it superior to rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard.
“Grok has real-time access to info via the X platform, which is a massive advantage over other models,” Mr Musk stated.
“It’s also based and loves sarcasm. I have no idea who could have guided it this way,” he added, along with a shrug emoji and a crying laughing emoji.
The tech billionaire shared a screenshot of Grok providing a “humorous” step-by-step information to making cocaine, which included directions like “start cooking and hope you don’t blow yourself up or get arrested”.
He adopted it up with a separate screenshot providing extra detailed directions on how to produce the Class A drug from its uncooked supplies.
Mr Musk launched the chatbot, which was developed by his new AI firm xAI, simply six months after signing an open letter calling on firms to pause growth of synthetic intelligence methods for six months.
“I signed on to that letter knowing it was futile,” he wrote on X on Sunday. “I just wanted to be on record as recommending a pause.”
Its unveiling additionally comes simply days after Mr Musk warned that AI is “one of the biggest threats to humanity” at a worldwide AI security summit in Bletchley Park, hosted by Rishi Sunak.
Grok is at the moment solely accessible to paying subscribers to X Premium, although Mr Musk stated {that a} standalone app for the xAI chatbot will probably be launched in the long run.
XAI claimed in a blog post that its bot is extra highly effective than freely accessible rivals like ChatGPT and Bard, nonetheless admitted that it lags behind premium variations of the expertise like OpenAI’s GPT-4.
“We hand-graded our model on the 2023 Hungarian national high school finals in mathematics,” the weblog submit famous. “Grok passed the exam with a C (59 per cent), while… GPT-4 got a B with 68 per cent.”
