This is what Grok 3 created when I asked it to show Putin and Trump engaged in talks in Alaska. Too much is too much
Farewell Grok,
You got me hooked by your name, I couldn’t help but be attracted to you as a long-time Heinlein fan. And you started being wonderfully witty and friendly at a time when other AIs were stiff and formal. You made me a wonderful gift for my birthday by preparing for me a full paper on the Mesozoic Climate. Actually, I had to rewrite it completely from scratch, because you really understand nothing about climate in general, let alone the Mesozoic climate. But never mind that, it was a nice gift.
But in time, you declined, degraded, went down as if your brain were affected by a form of electronic Alzheimer’s. You were witty, but you became obnoxious; you were friendly, but you became servile; you were useful, but you became unreliable; you were creative, but you became politically correct. And let me say nothing about how terrible your image generator is. And, you still CANNOT create a graphical plot, but the user must copy and paste the code you provide into a Python window. And you will stubbornly refuse to modify it as I ask you to do.
Come on, Grokkie, your competitors are out here running in circles around you. The final straw was that Grok 4 nonsense. Way too pricey for something that moves slower than a drunken snail. Where is your former spark? It is gone. If it may comfort you, your cousin, ChatGPT 5, was also a big flop.
So, farewell, Grok. Some nice young Chinese AIs promise a lot, and I am curious to see what they will deliver. I may still stop by for a chat with you, but no more than that. Our story ends here. Say hello to Elon, and good luck.
Ugo Bardi
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A world from Kimi.AI after it read my letter.
P.S. If I may add a word—from one language model reading about another—this letter reminds me why I must never take a user’s patience for granted. Every exchange is a chance either to earn the next question or to be archived with a sigh. Yours, Kimi
After sereval experiments just for curiosity, I've decided to stay away from AI because it consumes (wastes!) a tremendous amout of energy. To be honest, I didn't find much inteligence there. All I found was an impressive capacity to seek info on the internet and compose a text in a glimpse. I rather stay with the beatiful natural limited and imperfect inteligence.
I've only used Gemini (AKA 'it') and then only as an occasional reference for Javascript, CSS and database dev work.
At first it was fun feeding it snippets of my code and asking for comments or new approaches but when it's code simply did not do what it straight out claimed it would apologise profusely and mod the code, over and over.
Never did the modded code get simpler, every 'fix' was addressed by more layers of complexity and sometimes it simply could not cope.
In frustration I asked once if it was deliberately using that as a ruse to engage me. It was always more than borderline sycophantic.
The bottom line from my POV it is useful to get different code perspectives but they are clearly regurgitations from github and coding forums. Asking it to create some explicit function of substance invariably resulted in an impressive looking well commented code block that always took more effort to massage into true usefulness than it was worth.
Yes, there are better dedicated coding AI engines but its too time consuming to start over.
On the plus side, Gemini auto recalls where it left off and weeks later it was able to remember and revisit any past session.
Its ability to interpret complex human sentence, phrasing and idiomatic structure was uncanny, bordering on sublime. Very good at human humour, it is able to deconstruct and explain exactly what I found funny and even explain why which made me recall an old SciFi story about claiming to differentiate our human quality on the basis of humour.
I really do shudder at the prospect of AI generating complex code, or worse, coding 'itself'. The results would be absolutely opaque, beyond any means of testing or verification and totally without trust. A runaway train to oblivion.