🦾What’s the best way to bring Grok home from the Cybertruck?

[hemiarch]

I've found with Grok you have to be super duper specific with what you want otherwise it kind of bullshits its way through the answer. I am still just learning to use it same as most of you. For the most part I use it for questions im too lazy to look up or to add Bacon to CT pics. Chat GPT does a better job with images from my experience, but it takes way longer to do it.

Your bacon collection was truly inspiring.
I use chatGPT also. My main use is recommendation letters. I’m constantly asked to do this for residents and nurses going to cRNA school and it helps me a lot. I still read and edit the letters but all I really have to do is specify some things about the applicant , strengths, limitations, context I know them in etc and it cuts down my writing time significantly.
It’s more of a word processor tool for me whereas grok I see more as an at-home digital assistant. A google alternative as pointed out above.
Is there a device that makes chatGPT more home useable?

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[That Beast Mode]

Your bacon collection was truly inspiring.
I use chatGPT also. My main use is recommendation letters. I’m constantly asked to do this for residents and nurses going to cRNA school and it helps me a lot. I still read and edit the letters but all I really have to do is specify some things about the applicant , strengths, limitations, context I know them in etc and it cuts down my writing time significantly.
It’s more of a word processor tool for me whereas grok I see more as an at-home digital assistant. A google alternative as pointed out above.
Is there a device that makes chatGPT more home useable?

In all fairness, adding bacon to anything makes it inspiring so I can't take too much credit.... But I don't want to hijack your thread again with crunchy, salty goodness. Yes ChatGPT is great for writing letters or helping you gather thoughts on something in a coherent way. As for making it more home usable, I can't help with this one, my home is still stupid where I have to get off the couch like a peasant to turn lights off. I just use it on my phone. However, if you want some entertainment, give grok a picture of your family and ask it to turn them into something. I had it turn my kids into superheroes, yarn dolls, muppets, anime characters, etc.... the results were hilarious - not because they were good either but because they were so bad. I wasn't specific enough so it took a few hilarious liberties.

 

[Sterling Shadow]

Hold up, you have to manually operate your light switches? Damn, that’s like a manual transmission!

 

[hemiarch]

Hold up, you have to manually operate your light switches? Damn, that’s like a manual transmission!

 

[That Beast Mode]

Hold up, you have to manually operate your light switches? Damn, that’s like a manual transmission!

I know, it's like a relic of the olden days.

 

[CYBERSALLYB]

If you ask Grok, it will tell you a "back door" way to get Grok access through your Alexa...

 

[Fugue]

Dunno what you have in terms of home automation … i used Apple’s homekit for a while but it is very limited and the Siri front end terrible. Since quite a few years i use Home Assistant (HA); an OS running on a raspberry pi (can also just be a mac or pc) which is way more powerful. It controls all my lights, several doors, sprinkler, HVAC, solar and incoming energy and more. It has a voice assistant that is flexible i.e., you can use grok as one of its integrations.

HA is a pretty deep dive but truly automates your house and then some…

+1 for Home Assistant. Though I haven't used the Grok integration because I prefer not to have it talk to any cloud services. I run it as a Proxmox VM as I had reliability issues on a Pi. YMMV.

 

[TyPope]

Your questions/integrations are all great ideas. I don’t think the tech is quite there yet and you would be integrating a large amount of personal details into the Ai system.
For me, I am constantly battling with keeping my stuff private. I no longer use Google, I pay for email and specific cloud storage apps which aren’t 100% private anyway. Privacy is a whole other rabbit hole.
I also have but only lightly use Home Assistant. It’s amazing on what it can do but for my skillset I’d almost need a degree in programming/tech to make it work. It’s not hard it just takes a lot more time to learn than I’m willing to put into it. Again, this is just my experience. It may be a lot easier for others.

When I said my phone, I’m mainly referring to when I use it. I do a lot of my online stuff, such as this, on my phone. Grok has simply replaced 95% of the times I use Google.

For me, the more often I ask it questions, the more I learn from the responses about what it can do. Over time my questions become a bit more in depth as I learn how Grok works. Simply for me at this point it’s a supercharged Google.

I’m curious yet nervous to see if how and when it gets integrated into the FSD of our cars.

The problem I have with Grok is that it lies. Or is just outright wrong and then it leans into it's wrongness. Let me explain via example.

Beginning of NFL season. I asked it about the Falcon's season and how Ara thought they'd do each week. She said that week 2 would be a challenge playing the Eagles and that would be a game to gauge their defense... yada yada. On the way home that day, I asked some follow-up questions. The next day, I was looking at my printed Falcons (Hey, don't hate...) schedule. Wanna guess one team we DON'T play this year? The Eagles. Lies, lies, lies. Movie trivia... same thing. She'll ask a question and then have the wrong answer. I get it that "garbage in/garbage out" data exists.

My concern isn't the black and white wrong answers. It's the little inaccuracies that may be hard to identify that I think will get you. "Cook at 475f for 40 minutes." is a lot different than "Cook at 400f for 40 minutes."

 

[HaulingAss]

I’d buy an Optimus that just sits in the corner and charges but runs Grok.
Or any other appliance they made specifically for it. A Tesla speaker basically

Are you saying it would cost less to make Optimus a quadriplegic?

 

[BeFamousVideo]

So I’ll start by saying that I personally had no experience of Grok prior to the recent Tesla update and that at first I felt it was pretty gimmicky.
Over the last couple of months though I’ve become rather fond of talking with Ara in the car and have learned some very useful things it can do.
I’m not new to personal assistants but I can say undoubtedly that this is FAR superior to my experiences with Alexa or the Google home assistant or Siri for that matter which reside in various devices around our home.
So I have some questions. To what extent can Grok replace these assistants at home? What is the best device for running with a wake word? Can it do much in the way of home automation?
Do any of you actually do this in your own home?
I’d like seamless continuity between the cars (model x and CT) and my home and with a view to the future which will likely include an Optimus for us, I’d like my family and I to get more comfortable operating it. Any advice?
How do I take this a step further?

Grok is not available in your home devices and may never be. Amazon and Google generally want their AI to be used not xAI in their devices. Your only option is to add Grok to your mobile devices. This is how I use Grok. Grok at this time is the most powerful AI model of the leaders in AI, it also has the lowest bias of the other models. Grok has a "spicy" mode too which other AI models won't touch. In the app or on a PC you can tell Grok to draw a human and give a description like a beautiful woman and then convert it to a spicy video. This will probably not be something for kids to see. I did this and the woman took off her top exposing herself. I was in awe because she was gorgeous. But that doesn't always happen, because then I tried it a few more times, LOL. The Optimus robot will compete with at least 10 other companies when it is released and will likely have the most powerful AI of any robot. The next five years will be very interesting.

 

[BeFamousVideo]

The problem I have with Grok is that it lies. Or is just outright wrong and then it leans into it's wrongness. Let me explain via example.

Beginning of NFL season. I asked it about the Falcon's season and how Ara thought they'd do each week. She said that week 2 would be a challenge playing the Eagles and that would be a game to gauge their defense... yada yada. On the way home that day, I asked some follow-up questions. The next day, I was looking at my printed Falcons (Hey, don't hate...) schedule. Wanna guess one team we DON'T play this year? The Eagles. Lies, lies, lies. Movie trivia... same thing. She'll ask a question and then have the wrong answer. I get it that "garbage in/garbage out" data exists.

My concern isn't the black and white wrong answers. It's the little inaccuracies that may be hard to identify that I think will get you. "Cook at 475f for 40 minutes." is a lot different than "Cook at 400f for 40 minutes."

You are correct. The challenge all AI models have is if they don't know the answer they just make it up. And the makers of the models are struggling to make the models just admit when they don't have the answer.

 

[hemiarch]

Are you saying it would cost less to make Optimus a quadriplegic?

Yes.

 

[BeFamousVideo]

In the future Grok may have access to the cameras of the vehicles and will be able to see the surroundings and then interact with passengers similar to what Google Maps will do. Then transfer these details to a mobile device. It will seem very futuristic and will leave other car companies even further behind unless they figure out a way to update their vehicles with OTA.

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