{"id":52863,"date":"2024-01-19T11:57:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=52863"},"modified":"2024-04-19T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:09:53","slug":"grok-emotional-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/grok-emotional-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok Emotional Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ethical AI?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[T]o understand something or someone so completely that the observer becomes a part of the observed\u2014to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It\u2019s a deep, almost metaphysical understanding.\u201d<span id='easy-footnote-1-52863' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/grok-emotional-intelligence\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-52863' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/x.com\/scobleizer\/status\/1720666910738772411&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot;&gt;Robert Scoble, 2023. Twitter post&lt;\/a&gt;. Nov 4, 2023, 5:58 AM.; see also R. O. McGiveron, \u201cFrom Free Love to the Free-Fire Zone: Heinlein\u2019s Mars, 1939\u20131987,\u201d &lt;em&gt;Extrapolation&lt;\/em&gt; 42, no. 2 (2001): 137\u2013149.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> These words may well be reminiscent of some descriptions of intuitive cognition as they arose in the context of Idealism, Goethe, or anthroposophy, among others. But they also represent the ideal of the new artificial intelligence (AI) that the new company xAI announced on November 5, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe term \u2018grok\u2019 comes from Robert A. Heinlein\u2019s 1961 science fiction novel <em>Stranger in a Strange Land<\/em>. In the context of the book, \u2018grok\u2019 is a Martian word\u201d<span id='easy-footnote-2-52863' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/grok-emotional-intelligence\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-52863' title='Ibid.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> with a meaning comparable to the above definition. In modern parlance, mainly in tech and geek culture, \u201cGrok\u201d continues to be used to describe a deep, intuitive understanding. The AI Grok will be accessible through a chat interface (like ChatGPT) and will later be integrated into Tesla\u2019s cars and, more importantly, the humanoid Tesla Bot, to enable straightforward and \u201cintuitive\u201d interaction with human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge of ever-accelerating technology is often depicted as threatening to displace humanity and our ideals and to displace individual human beings. But what happens when an AI is explicitly connected to ideals of deeper human knowledge? And how is this compatible with the xAI mission statement on the website: \u201cWe are guided by our mission to advance our collective understanding of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The effects of these kinds of projects are still unknown, but anyone interested in these developments in technology can see how some projects are also seeking to express certain higher ideals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/x.ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Announcing Grok<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/x.com\/scobleizer\/status\/1720666910738772411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Scoble on X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Joshua Kelberman<br><strong>Photo source <\/strong>xAi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethical AI? \u201c[T]o understand something or someone so completely that the observer becomes a part of the observed\u2014to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It\u2019s a deep, almost metaphysical understanding.\u201d These words may well be reminiscent of some descriptions of intuitive cognition as they arose in the context of Idealism, Goethe, or anthroposophy, among others. But they also represent the ideal of the new artificial intelligence (AI) that the new company xAI announced on November 5, 2023. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9147,"featured_media":51691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8809],"tags":[11398,11488,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-52863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-digital-world","tag-2023-47-en","tag-en2024-3-4","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}