TNB Tech Minute: Musk’s AI Bot Struggles to Write Accurate News

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus, chip-machinery maker ASML orders beat forecasts. And tech stocks fall pulling the Nasdaq to its worst day since 2022. Zoe Thomas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Wednesday, July 17th.
0:24.0	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:27.0	Grock, Elon Musk's AI model accessible through his social media platform X,
0:32.0	is struggling to provide accurate news
0:35.0	headlines based on its read of content from posts on X. The model's limitations
0:40.6	were on display in the hours after the attempted assassination of former
0:44.1	President Donald Trump.
0:46.1	It posted incorrect information, amplified, unverified claims, and failed to identify sarcasm.
0:53.0	Musk has touted the benefit of X using Grox's AI powers to automate writing headlines and news
0:59.9	summaries based on posts from hundreds of millions of users.
1:04.0	X didn't respond to a request for comment about Grok's headlines.
1:09.0	ASML, which supplies semiconductor-making machinery to chipmakers, posted nearly 5.6 billion euros,
1:17.2	roughly $6 billion in orders in the three months to the end of June. That was up from 4.5 billion euros a year earlier,
1:25.0	and it beat analysts' expectations.
1:28.0	ASML is riding the AI wave
1:30.0	as chipmakers are on the hunt for highly complex machines to produce increasingly
1:35.5	sophisticated semiconductors.
1:38.0	The company counts Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing company and Samsung Electronics among its customers.
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