It comes from a book called Stranger in a Strange Land written by Robert Heinlein. In the book, if someone groks something, the person understands and loves that thing in a fundamental and complete way.
The Martian Race had encountered the people of the fifth planet, grokked them completely, and had taken action; asteroid ruins were all that remained, save that the Martians continued to praise and cherish the people they had destroyed.
This quote doesn’t define the word, though. As per the article, Grok means “to understand completely” not “to obliterate”.
After the Martians grokked them, they realized there was no option but to obliterate them. This is possibly a valid response, depending how terrible the occupants of said planet were.
It’s still a bad name for a chat bot, as they clearly do not understand anything completely, or at all.
I mean, part of groking Mike involved some light cannibalism, and the martians planned on wiping out humanity once they groked them, regardless of any kind of end result.
What the fuck kind of name is “Grok” for an AI chatbot?
It comes from a book called Stranger in a Strange Land written by Robert Heinlein. In the book, if someone groks something, the person understands and loves that thing in a fundamental and complete way.
A really bad one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
This quote doesn’t define the word, though. As per the article, Grok means “to understand completely” not “to obliterate”.
After the Martians grokked them, they realized there was no option but to obliterate them. This is possibly a valid response, depending how terrible the occupants of said planet were.
It’s still a bad name for a chat bot, as they clearly do not understand anything completely, or at all.
I mean, part of groking Mike involved some light cannibalism, and the martians planned on wiping out humanity once they groked them, regardless of any kind of end result.