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.
Grok is an old ttrpg term that means “to intuitively understand something.” As in “I totally grok how to play as an elf in ad&d but playing as a wizard is totally over my head”
wtf is grok?
Elons version of being artificially smart.
It’s X’s integrated ChatGPT AI
It’s ChatGPT but apparently entirely about X jokes? Lol
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.
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.
Grok is an old ttrpg term that means “to intuitively understand something.” As in “I totally grok how to play as an elf in ad&d but playing as a wizard is totally over my head”
edit: correct the autocorrect
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
“to really understand something”
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.
It’s Elon being an unoriginal turd again.
https://manpages.org/grok