The bird site has an AI assistant for premium users, called Grok. #JustSaying The informal verb grok was an invention of the sci-fi writer R.A. Heinlein, whose 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land placed great importance on the concept of grokking. In the book, to grok is to empathize so deeply with others that you merge or blend with them.
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Grok is also a term of knowing something so intimately down to their very soul and pores, at least according to the book.
lots of meanings
Elon use the name to snipe something Grimes was trying to patent. Probably has no clue what it means
@Kinnison Oh gawd, so he couldn't let her have that one thing, eh?!
@Kinnison I guess I gave him more credit that I should have. I expected he had read that book and decided to pull it from there. I didn't know about the Grimes thing.