Grok is an old ttrpg term that means “to insult understand something.” As in “I totally grok how to play as an elf in ad&d but playing as a wizard is risky over my head”
It comes from the Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. It was defined as fully understanding something. It was used later by nerds in other contexts, as your other replies show.
wtf is grok?
It’s Elon being an unoriginal turd again.
https://manpages.org/grok
It’s X’s integrated ChatGPT AI
Elons version of being artificially smart.
I had never heard of it either, but once I learned Musk was involved, the section title “Grok ranks among most reckless chatbots” made perfect sense.
Grok is an old ttrpg term that means “to insult understand something.” As in “I totally grok how to play as an elf in ad&d but playing as a wizard is risky over my head”
It’s also an old Log parser and search function for Linux/unix. So it’s logical he would steal it like he stole the xorg iconography.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
“to really understand something”
It comes from the Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. It was defined as fully understanding something. It was used later by nerds in other contexts, as your other replies show.
It’s ChatGPT but apparently entirely about X jokes? Lol