Musk's latest interview said that Grok 3 would be released at the end of the year, and he admitted that he had been "tricked" into agreeing to his son's sex reassignment surgery

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2024-07-23 14:40Posted on the official account of Beijing Tencent News Technology Channel

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Musk revealed that xAI will release Grok 2 in August and Grok 3 in December.
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Grok 3 will be trained at xAI's data center in Memphis, and it promises to be the world's most powerful AI model.
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Musk revealed that he signed a document agreeing to his son's sex reassignment surgery when he was deceived.

Musk's latest interview said that Grok 3 would be released at the end of the year, and he admitted that he had been "tricked" into agreeing to his son's sex reassignment surgery

Tencent Technology News reported on July 23 that according to foreign media reports, United States local time on Monday, at the Gigafactory in Texas, Tesla CEO El·on Musk (Elon Musk) was interviewed by the famous psychologist ·Dr. Jordan B. Peterson (Jordan B. Peterson) at the Gigafactory in Texas on Monday.

In this interview, Musk talked about the latest development progress of his AI startup xAI chatbot, and also clearly revealed the release schedule of the two products, Grok 2 and Grok 3. In addition, Musk also shared a rare personal experience, talking about signing a document that allowed his son Xavier to undergo sex reassignment surgery when he was "tricked".

Grok 2 was released in August and Grok 3 in December

Elon Musk's xAI has successfully developed a chatbot Grok and is competing fiercely with products such as Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT. It is worth noting that although OpenAI was co-founded by Musk and Sam ·Altman in the past, Musk withdrew in 2018 due to differences in their vision for the future. Subsequently, after Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X, he cleverly incorporated Grok into it, unlocking a cutting-edge AI tool experience for power users.

During the interview, Musk expressed deep concern about the "pro-human" principle that is generally missing in the current field of artificial intelligence, and ambitiously set the goal that his AI model will become "the most powerful AI model in the world" by the end of the year.

In addition, Musk also pointed out the left-leaning tendencies in ChatGPT and competitors such as Google's Gemini, and he vowed to resolutely resist and counter the left-wing rhetoric tendencies in such AI tools. Musk told Peterson that in a conversation with Larry Page, the former ·CEO of Google, he had admitted that he was increasingly concerned about the safety of artificial intelligence. Musk said that these in-depth exchanges not only contributed to his co-founding of OpenAI with Ultraman, but also inspired his determination to eventually develop Grok independently.

Speaking about Page, Musk said: "He does see me as a 'speciesist' because I'm firmly on the side of humans, not machines. Page's point, if I understand it correctly, is to foresee that if we upload our minds to computers, everyone will eventually become robots. ”

Peterson agrees, stressing: "This is the end of humanity, because we are no longer what we are today, no matter how we were then." ”

Musk later said: "Ignoring the interests of humanity is simply incredible. If humanity doesn't want to work together, then who will? That's the bottom line. That's when I realized that we needed new AI companies to compete with giants like Google. ”

For the future of xAI, Musk is not only full of confidence, but also sets a more positive timeline. "We have a lot to do compared to the incumbents that have been around for five, 10 or 20 years," he told Peterson. We started late, but we're catching up at an astonishing pace. xAI is growing faster than any other company. ”

When asked to compare Grok with ChatGPT, Musk said frankly: "The currently released version of Grok is still based on the training results of Grok 1, although we have optimized and upgraded it to call it Grok 1.5, but its basic model is still an order of magnitude behind ChatGPT in performance." ”

Peterson then asked Musk about the competitiveness of the next-generation AI chatbot model. Musk revealed that the second version of Grok has successfully completed training, and engineers are currently working on "filling in the gaps", and it is expected that Grok 2 will be officially launched next month. "The performance of Grok 2 will be comparable to ChatGPT's latest model, and the two are extremely close," Musk said. ”

Musk further added: "At the same time, at the Memphis data center, we are working hard to train Grok 3. The training phase is expected to be completed in the next three to four months, followed by detailed fine-tuning and bug fixes. Our goal is to release Grok 3 in December, when it will be the world's top AI model. ”

xAI has made a significant breakthrough in enhancing Grok. As early as May, news broke that the company was preparing to incorporate multimodal input capabilities into Grok, which aims to allow users to upload images and get accurate text responses instantly.

In early July, Musk revealed that Grok 3 will be trained on the powerful computing power of 100,000 NVIDIA H100 chips. These chips, which are hot in Silicon Valley, have become an indispensable core force to support large language models with their excellent data processing capabilities.

was "tricked" into having his son undergo sex reassignment surgery

In the interview, Musk rarely disclosed the fact that his son was transgender, and at the same time expressed his mixed feelings about it, admitting that he had been "tricked" into supporting his son's decision to have sex reassignment surgery.

When it comes to the issue of doctors performing sex reassignment surgery on children, both Musk and Peterson strongly oppose it, saying that the move is "extremely unethical". In particular, Musk criticized the term "gender-affirming care" used by the left, calling it "a chilling cover-up", bluntly stating: "This is essentially the physical mutilation and sterilization of children, and it is pure evil." The victims are children who are far from the age of majority. ”

"Adults can take advantage of identity confusion to manipulate children who are really in crisis into believing that they belong to another gender," he added. ”

When Peterson asked why he mentioned it, Musk talked about his son, Xavier. He revealed that Xavier had suffered from gender dysphoria and always thought he was a girl, while he was "induced" to sign the relevant documents under the combination of incomplete information, the chaos caused by the epidemic and the fear that his child might commit suicide.

Peterson responded: "This was a fallacy from the start, and no responsible clinician would share this notion." There is a lack of conclusive evidence to support this, and if suicide rates rise, the root cause is underlying depression and anxiety rather than gender identity distress. Every sensible clinician knows this, but they often choose to remain silent out of timidity. ”

Musk couldn't agree more, noting: "This is nothing short of appalling evil! Those who promote such acts deserve to be severely punished by the law! He continued: "I was one of the victims and was misled into participating in this decision. No one has made it clear to me that so-called puberty blockers are the equivalent of sterilization drugs. I basically lost a son because of it. There's a reason they call it deadnaming. It's called deadnaming because your son is dead. My son Xavier is dead, dying of the Awakening Psychovirus. ”

"I'm sad to hear the news, I can't imagine how painful it was," Peterson said. Musk then said: "Because of this, I vow to eradicate the 'awakening thinking virus'." Fortunately, we are making progress. ”

In Walter ·Isaacson's biography, Musk spoke publicly for the first time last year about his 16-year-old son, Xavier, about his 16-year-old son's gender transition, detailing how Xavier initially revealed the decision to Musk's brother via text message, and specifically requested secrecy to keep the information from reaching his father's ears. Although Musk was relatively open to the change at first, the parent-child relationship was sadly overshadowed when Xavier chose to cut ties due to his father's change of stance.

The incident deeply touched Musk, who then lashed out at California's policy on sex reassignment surgery and medication for minors, blaming his son's ideological shift in the Los Angeles school environment he attended at the time. In particular, California Governor Gavin · Newsom's AB1955 bill, which prohibits school staff's ability to inform parents about changes in their child's gender identity, directly angered Musk and became the trigger for him to announce the relocation of X and SpaceX headquarters out of California. (Compiler/Golden Deer)

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