Hannah Murphy

I mean, it's hard for Stephen and I because how many times can you write the same story that there's been a reshuffle in the executive rankings that a huge number of people have left?

I mean, it's the same story every couple of months.

You'll speak to AI staff

at X and XAI who'll tell you that they will learn that they are supposed to do a product release about a new product they haven't really heard much about on Twitter by Musk posting it on Twitter, not even inside the company being told or given a clear timeline.

And I think...

Labs like OpenAI and DeepMind have for years been slowly, steadily, consistently building up processes, a tech stack around rolling out these models that works.

And Elon himself has said he doesn't believe in research.

The term researcher, he thinks that's a relic and you should all be engineers working on the product now.

But that is at odds with some of the more sort of academic bent of technology.

cutting-edge frontier breakthroughs.

And then you also have the sort of organizational chaos, and then you have Musk saying that Grok itself has to embody his free speech ideals.

I asked Grok itself if it was behind.

In fact, I said, why is Grok behind the other models?

And it pushed back on this and said it wasn't meaningfully behind.

Oh, really?

But then it added...

Grok trades some, in quotes, safe slash polished traits for maximum truth-seeking, real-time knowledge, and less refusal.

So this is the idea that the model shouldn't be moralizing or paternalistic, and it should be as close to totally freewheeling.

I think there's an unhinged mode, as it's called.

But we've had a couple of crises too that spring to mind.