Dictionary.com Names 'Hallucination' as 2023 Word of the Year, Highlighting the Impact of Artificial Intelligence


The Grok Bot agent developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX AI team was launched about a month ago, and its weekly active users have exceeded 400,000. As of September 14, it reached 418,000 users, representing a 24% increase compared to the previous month, indicating its market popularity and competitive potential, bringing new changes to the AI landscape.
Bill Gates said at the Gates Foundation Goals for the Future conference in New York that he had hoped to only talk about foreign aid and reducing child mortality, but the rapid development of AI has forced him to discuss whether society is prepared to deal with AI risks during meetings with world leaders. He described AI as 'ten science fiction stories happening at the same time,' and was shocked by the progress of AI about a year ago.
It has been disclosed that SpaceX's AI department, SpaceXAI, is internally discussing the potential acquisition of customer and operational data from struggling or bankrupt startups to train models such as Grok, in order to obtain high-quality external data to enhance performance. This move indicates that it no longer solely relies on Elon Musk's X platform and internal AI mentor data, but is beginning to expand diverse data sources for Grok.
The WeChat AI assistant 'Weixiao' has sparked controversy over privacy concerns and has topped the hot search list. WeChat clarified that claims about directly reading chat records or spying on privacy are inaccurate. The assistant is a native AI, currently in a limited beta test, supporting text and voice interaction, capable of checking weather, express delivery, and takeout. It can also proactively trigger in scenarios such as Moments, official accounts, chats, and short video sections to assist with content summarization.
The Gates Foundation will invest $1 billion over the next two years to promote the development of artificial intelligence, making cutting-edge technology benefit the poorest regions. Gates also shared his views on the global large model landscape, computing power carbon emissions, and Chinese humanoid robots, pointing out that according to different measures, there are currently four leading large model companies in both the US and China.