其实,Grok 一词来自马斯克喜爱的一部科幻小说——罗伯特·海因莱因的 《异乡异客》(Stranger in a Strange Land)。小说讲述了一位由火星人抚养长大的地球人迈克尔·史密斯,在返回地球后努力理解人类的文化、宗教和社会,并在一位导师的帮助下学习地球的知识,同时将火星的价值观带入人类世界……
这一概念与马斯克推崇的 “第一性原理” 在某种程度上不谋而合,同时也体现了他对 AI 的终极愿景:打造一个能够真正理解宇宙的 AI 模型。
当然,我们也能从中得到一个重要的启发:不爱科幻的企业家,做不出有梦想的 AI 模型!
小说《异乡异客》中关于 Grok 的解释
'Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed--to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science--and it means as little to us as color means to a blind man...if I chopped you up and made a stew of you, you and the stew, whatever else was in it, would grok--and when I ate you, we would grok together and nothing would be lost and it would not matter which one of us did the chopping up and eating.Robert Anson Heinlein,《Stranger in a Strange Land》