Grok Hits the Scene: X Unleashes its “Rebellious” Chatbot 🤖

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Elon Musk’s Grok makes its grand entrance, and its real-time data features and witty responses are already making waves on X. Plus, we delve into Helen Toner’s perspective on what occurred last month with Sam Altman’s firing."

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• A Chart to Kickstart Your Day 📈: The Magnificent Seven Stocks

• Grok Hits the Scene: X Unleashes its “Rebellious” Chatbot 🤖

• Ex-OpenAI Board Member Helen Toner Shares Her Side of the Story

• AI Tutorial: Obtain Super High-Resolution Versions of Your Images

• AI Image of The Day🎨: Ice Sculptures

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

A chart to kickstart your day

The Magnificent Seven Stocks

Details:

• The chart shows the Magnificent Seven’s market capitalization and 5-year stock performance as of November 2023.

• Coined by Bank of America analyst Michael Hartnett, the Magnificent Seven includes megacap companies propelling tech growth.

• These companies share a common theme of excelling in accumulating extensive customer data, innovating in cutting-edge hardware and software, and strategically leveraging artificial intelligence, all of which contribute to their prominence in the market.

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Grok Hits the Scene: X Unleashes its “Rebellious” Chatbot 🤖

X's new AI chatbot, Grok, has begun a limited launch targeted at Premium Plus subscribers in the U.S. Grok is positioned as a competitor to ChatGPT and other generative AI services.

Key details:

• Access is currently exclusive to US Premium Plus subscribers ($16/month), with longtime paid users getting priority

• Grok can incorporate real-time X data into responses, providing up-to-date info other chatbots lack. Users have already started comparing it to alternative options, with impressive results that underscore the relevance of this feature

• Early users note Grok has an irreverent personality if prompted, in line with claims of it having "wit" and a "rebellious streak"

• Grok is text-only for now, though xAI intends to expand its capabilities over time

As X seeks revenue streams beyond advertising, exclusive tools like Grok may help drive more subscriptions and retention. It remains to be seen if Grok will be a true ChatGPT rival as its capabilities and availability expand.

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Ex-OpenAI Board Member Helen Toner Shares Her Side of the Story

There's been plenty of intrigue surrounding the surprise ousting of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman right before Thanksgiving. Board member Helen Toner, who voted to remove Altman, told her side of the story in a WSJ interview:

• Toner says the goal was to "strengthen OpenAI and make it more able to achieve its mission" of benefiting humanity through AI. She implies a lack of trust led to Altman's removal, though declines to give specifics

• She alleges that an unnamed OpenAI lawyer later attempted to pressure her to reinstate Altman, describing it as an 'intimidation' tactic.

• Previously, Altman privately confronted Toner about a critical research paper she co-authored on AI safety, which was critical of OpenAI. Subsequently, he unsuccessfully attempted to sway other board members to remove Toner.

• She admitted she was taken aback by staffers’ apparent willingness to abandon the company without Altman at the helm and the extent to which the management team sided with the ousted CEO.

While the interview does share some insights on how the situation unfolded and Helen Toner's perspective throughout, the 'real' reasons for the dismissal are once again not provided. It appears that information is set to remain behind closed doors

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AI Tutorial

Obtain Super High-Resolution Versions of Your Images

Following these easy steps, you will be able to transform standard resolution images (1024) to a remarkable 3584 × 5376 by letting the AI hallucinate all the intricate details.

1. Generate an image.

You can use midjourney, example prompt:

photography, a green lush waterfall in the middle of the jungle, in the style of eastern zhou dynasty, lovely, ferrania, lively and energetic, naturalistic nostalgia, graceful --ar 2:3 --v 5

2. Upscale in Magnific AI

Preset: Nature & Landscapes, Creativity: 2, HDR: 1, Resemblance: -2

You will need to put a different prompt from the one used in midjourney, to weight important details:

photography, a green lush waterfall in the middle of the jungle, (realistic water, waterfall, water drops:1.3), (realistic plants and tress:1.3), rain forest, (realistic ferns:1.2)

Once it is done, download the upscaled image

3. Upscale Again

Upload the upscaled image for another upscale. This will allow you to achieve 4x magnification. The procedure is the same as before, the only change is to switch the "Engine" to "Sharpy" to obtain a sharper look.

Then just download the result and you’ll have a super high resolution and enhanced version of your original image.

Source: @javilopen on X

AI Image of The Day

Send your AI-generated images for a chance to get published here: [email protected]

Source: @saegumal & @silloa on LeonardoAI discord

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