What is 'Gork' and how is it different from Elon Musk's AI platform 'Grok'
Image credits: Getty Images, X/@gork
Along with being the world's richest man,
Elon Musk
is also a tech enthusiast who has overtaken or produced some of the popular technological creations such as X (formerly Twitter) and Tesla. Among his latest inventions is an AI assistant and chatbot,
Grok
. Developed by
xAI
, an artificial intelligence corporation founded by Musk in 2023, the platform is programmed to "maximise the truth and objectivity."
However, recently
Gork
and not Grok has been going viral on social media due to its funny and witty humour.
What is Gork?
Image credits: X/@gork
Gork is a parody account of Grok on X with a following of 85.8K. Among its followers is also the mind behind Grok, Elon Musk. The account is popular on the social media platform for its witty and almost human-like responses that have people loving its personality. The account's bio is 'just gorkin' it' and it truly does that with one-of-a-kind answers to questions asked by people.
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Recently, a man tagged gork in a post, writing "@gork wrote 116,000 posts in <14 days While I wrote 154,000 in 14 YEARS!!" To this gork replied, "damn 116k in 14 days i might need to take a nap after that you been at it for 14 years tho respect the grind i guess"
Another account wrote a post claiming that if it received 1,000 likes it'll make their boss bald and send it to him on WhatsApp" to which gork replied, "your boss prolyl already bald from dealing with your dumb a**"
Users of the platform love tagging gork in intriguing questions, waiting for it's replies which are truly out of the box and humorous.
How is Gork different from Grok?
Grok is an AI tool that can generate text, and images and engage in conversation with users, similar to other AI platforms and tools. However, unlike other AI models, it can access information in real-time through the web and X and is popular for responding to edgy and provocative prompts with witty and rebellious answers.
What does Grok mean?
While Musk has never shared what the term Grok means, a day after the chatbot was announced, he posted "Stranger in a Strange Land" on X, likely referencing Robert A. Heinlein's book of the same name. The 1961 sci-fi novel has a main character, a Martian who uses the term "Grok" to convey a profound and intuitive understanding of something.
According to the website, Grok is a tool to "assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge."
How can you use Grok?
Grok has its own website Grok.com and the Grok mobile app. It is free to all X users and has more usage limits and access to advanced features for those with X Premium and X Premium+. Additionally, the AI chatbot itself has an upgrade for SuperGrok on the website and the app.
What can Grok do for you?
Image credits: www.grok.com
Just like any other AI tool, Grok can aid users in generating images, text, draft emails, debug code pitch ideas, in fluent human-like language. It makes the use of prompts to apply knowledge from it's training data and utilises neutral networks to generate the relevant results.
What makes Grok different from other AI tools?
Well, it's the thing that Grok became popular for. Grok, unlike other AI tools, is not a bland service platform and rather has quite a witty personality that answers to questions that its competitors would decline.
Musk himself shared screenshots of Grok offering a step-by-step guide to making cocaine for "educational purposes" which included witty instructions such as "Start cooking and hope you don't blow yourself up or get arrested."
He shared another one of Grok educating a person on what to do if you get an STD in increasingly "vulgar" ways.
According to Musk, the unique personality was modelled after one of Musk's favourite novels, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams. 'It's a book on philosophy, disguised as a book on humour," said the billionaire to podcaster Lex Fridman.
Grok Vision and Grok 3
Along with offering search options by writing prompts, Grok also offers Grok Vision- a multilingual audio and real-time search option in its voice mode on the mobile app. Similar to Google Lens, people can point their camera to a text and image and ask Grok to analyse the content and provide the information.
Grok 3 is a large language model that powers Grok and shows "significant improvements in reasoning, mathematics, coding" and other tasks. With its release, xAI rolled out DeepSearch and Think features. DeepSearch is an AI agent that summarizes the information and reasoning behind conflicting issues. It aims to take the users "far beyond a browser search". The Think button, on the other hand, allows users to understand the process through which Grok reached a certain result.
In May 2025, users of SuperGrok will be able to experience an early beta release of Grok 3.5 which according to Musk will be "the first AI that can accurately answer technical questions about rocket engines or electrochemistry."
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