Reading archive 2024-01-02

Elon Musk promised an anti-‘woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned." Grok, launched this month on X, has angered conservatives by endorsing diversity. Musk says he’s trying to fix it. - "Touting xAI to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in April, Musk accused OpenAI’s programmers of 'training the AI to lie' or to refrain from commenting when asked about sensitive issues. (OpenAI wrote in a February blog post that its goal is not for the AI to lie, but for it to avoid favoring any one political group or taking positions on controversial topics.) Musk said his AI, in contrast, would be 'a maximum truth-seeking AI,' even if that meant offending people. 

"So far, however, the people most offended by Grok’s answers seem to be the people who were counting on it to readily disparage minorities, vaccines and President Biden."

Accused leaker Teixeira was seen as potential mass shooter, probe finds: Fellow airmen at the Massachusetts base where Teixeira worked warned superiors about his ‘fringe thinking’ and called him ‘the active shooter kid.’ Their concerns went unreported.

Biden’s economy vs. Trump’s, in 12 charts: Both presidents tout their contributions on the U.S. economy ahead of the 2024 election. But how do their claims stack up?

White House clean-energy spending boom puts Biden in the crosshairs: The rollout of a multibillion-dollar ‘green’ hydrogen plan may help the U.S. dominate the energy transition — and give critics another target