This Grok question & answer doesn’t appear that impressive unless you have been using AI for the past couple years. Regular AI users have been waiting for the day we could ask a simple question and receive a simple response. AI isn’t a great product yet, but the rate of progress is stunning. One can see improvements by the week.
Here’s another example of the state of AI:
1) I asked Grok for the beta of Amazon stock. Grok responded by giving me 2 pages of blather describing what stock beta is and what the beta for companies like Amazon might be.
2) I told Grok that Amazon’s beta is 1.15 according to several sources that I proceeded to name.
3) I asked Grok for Amazon’s beta again and it gave it to me in a succinct reply. Then I asked Grok for the beta of 15 other stocks and it gave me those just as efficiently. I was now seeing everyone’s beta calculation for Amazon in one place. Something I couldn’t get anywhere else without paying large fees. Grok just needed a little nudge.
I can’t blame you for concluding from that story that AI is the equivalent of a 1920’s vintage hand-crank car. The difference is that AI will run like a 2025 sports car within a few months. It will fly like a rocket soon after that. And it will function like nothing we’ve ever seen before within a couple years.
The fun of it all is having a hands-on, interactive front-row seat to one of humankind’s greatest achievements. Imagine sitting next door to the Wright brothers watching them for 2 years fiddling with the first airplane. By using AI instead of search engines you can participate in something that is both historical and really cool.
