Grok3 - wow!

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Another poster recommended Grok3 for advice relating to his medical condition. I decided to check it out today. I was so impressed that I’m considering upgrading to “Super Grok” although the free version is excellent. I asked it about 4 different topics - 2 healthcare, 1 financial, and 1 travel. In all cases, it came back with what seemed to be well thought out responses and prompted me for more information so it could give me a more complete response. The tone is conversational while also being thorough and professionally delivered. I’m so glad I tried it, and I probably wouldn’t have without reading the ER member’s post. It is so much better than a Google search. I haven’t used other AI tools so cannot compare it to those, but I’m very impressed.
 
Scuba said:
Another poster recommended Grok3 for advice relating to his medical condition. I decided to check it out today. I was so impressed that I’m considering upgrading to “Super Grok” although the free version is excellent. I asked it about 4 different topics - 2 healthcare, 1 financial, and 1 travel. In all cases, it came back with what seemed to be well thought out responses and prompted me for more information so it could give me a more complete response. The tone is conversational while also being thorough and professionally delivered. I’m so glad I tried it, and I probably wouldn’t have without reading the ER member’s post. It is so much better than a Google search. I haven’t used other AI tools so cannot compare it to those, but I’m very impressed.
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There's an existing thread discussing Grok. It's not always right, same as the rest.

Grok3, the AI on X (old Twitter) is flat out the best doctor I've ever had. Stunningly Good!

He's certainly not having any trouble socializing with them mother's of all his dozen or so children! Money is a very good social lubricant.
www.early-retirement.org www.early-retirement.org
 
Its pretty good. It has an annoying habit of pandering to you with phrases like "gee that is an interesting idea" or if you have been discussing some topic, it will try and crudely segue that topic into the new one. Something like "Just like your early retirement plan, shopping for car insurance can present several challenges".

It also makes up stuff. I think they call it hallucinating. I asked for 10 books similar in plot to the comic book, movie, Superman. Specifically give me books about a single protagonist with a special ability or power in a world where nobody else has these (so not a X-men or Harry Potter). It came up with some fairly reasonable books but gave me two books that did not actually exist. When I called it out on that, it looked again and apologized, claiming the hallucinating thing.
 
Fermion said:
Its pretty good. It has an annoying habit of pandering to you with phrases like "gee that is an interesting idea" or if you have been discussing some topic, it will try and crudely segue that topic into the new one. Something like "Just like your early retirement plan, shopping for car insurance can present several challenges".

It also makes up stuff. I think they call it hallucinating. I asked for 10 books similar in plot to the comic book, movie, Superman. Specifically give me books about a single protagonist with a special ability or power in a world where nobody else has these (so not a X-men or Harry Potter). It came up with some fairly reasonable books but gave me two books that did not actually exist. When I called it out on that, it looked again and apologized, claiming the hallucinating thing.
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Sounds great....hallucinating software is going to make our lives easier? What a joke!
 
Well, yeah but I AM reading one of the other 8 books it recommended. So there is that.
 
GenXguy said:
There's an existing thread discussing Grok. It's not always right, same as the rest.

Grok3, the AI on X (old Twitter) is flat out the best doctor I've ever had. Stunningly Good!

He's certainly not having any trouble socializing with them mother's of all his dozen or so children! Money is a very good social lubricant.
www.early-retirement.org www.early-retirement.org
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Yes, that is how I learned about it. I had heard of it before but hadn’t really considered using it. I thought it was helpful enough to start a separate thread on it for general use. The other thread is focused on the OP’s medical issues and is in the Healthcare forum.
 
I only use Google if I might want to go to a web site. Otherwise I only use Grok.

Lots of medical questions.

Educating me on my boiler, how boilers work, deciding whether to repair or spend $17,000 on a new Buderus boiler with chimney liner. The repairs are finished and boiler is working. Got my $9 worth on that one.

Past week Grok has been helping me diagnose Windows performance problems, configure firewall rules and plan a more advanced network security setup.

Soon Grok will be added to my Tesla.
 
FYI, you can ask Grok3 to "reduce AI babble" or simply say "briefly" and it will respond accordingly.

I know this is a retirement forum and the folks here consist of a very wide array of types, from all walks of life. Please don't concentrate on the negatives with regard to Grok3. I promise the positives shine!
 
I initially steered away from Grok because I was concerned it could be intentionally ideologically biased. I turned to it when I wanted an AI to draw a caricature of Musk. Other AIs have guardrails that prohibit that. Grok cranked out what I wanted. After that, I tried for some more general prompts and it looks pretty good to me. On prompts about who promotes the most disinformation it gave results similar to the othe major AIs witch had been accused of bias (in the other direction).
 
It seems it only gives (free version) 3 requests every 2 hours.

I did check it against some prior health conditions and it gave pretty good suggestions and options for courses of action that were aligned with my actual diagnosis.

I haven't checked for "bias" as frankly, I don't care. That is for me to decide and determine.

Flieger
 
pb4uski said:
Anyone know how it compares to Perplexity?
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They are very different. Grok3 is supposed to be more of a problem solver.

What sets Grok3 apart is also a stunning amount of computing power, along with it's integration with Palantir.

For those who don't know, Palantir was pretty much the first practical AI, and found Bin Ladin. Grok3 is the best of the best.
 
Cujet said:
They are very different. Grok3 is supposed to be more of a problem solver.

What sets Grok3 apart is also a stunning amount of computing power, along with it's integration with Palantir.

For those who don't know, Palantir was pretty much the first practical AI, and found Bin Ladin. Grok3 is the best of the best.
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Are you a stockholder? :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Flieger
 
I’ve been using it quite a bit over the last week or so, mostly on estate planning stuff. It is very good. It isn’t 100% correct, and does on occasion make mistakes so you can’t rely on it 100%. I asked it a factual question on certain political events to see if it gave the correct answer, or disinformation, and it gave the correct answer.
 
As always, disinformation vs correct answer is subject to confirmation bias, so always be aware.

Flieger
 
I just signed up for a free account on Grok.com. I asked Grok about my free account and this was its response:
As of today, March 17, 2025, Grok 3 is free for everyone, with no X account required. You’ll get the core experience, though there are some usage limits (like 10 requests every two hours).

I'm going to try it out on a recent health issue. This will be my first conversation with any AI. Oh, I decided to give Grok a try because of the other thread promoting Grok's "health skills" and the fact that it's free!
 
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