Elon Musk, CEO of xAI, stressed the criticality of truth in AI evaluation, particularly as concerns rise about AI bias and misinformation. He highlighted this following Google AI's controversial failure to answer Holocaust-related questions accurately, emphasizing xAI's Grok development as a crucial response to the potential dangers of politically correct but inaccurate AI.
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