Elon Musk’s ‘unhinged’ Grok has surprising response to Joe Rogan asking if there’s any gold left in Fort Knox
No one has visited Fort Knox since 2017
It’s supposedly one of the most secure places on Earth, and with Fort Knox housing a vast proportion of the USA’s gold supplies, we should hope so, too.
The U.S. Mint claims that Fort Knox holds around half of the country’s gold, which works out at around 5,000 tons.
Not everyone is convinced, though, and with Fort Knox being notoriously secretive over its history, President Donald Trump is among those who claim the reserves are actually much lower.
It comes at a time when the USA is trying to tighten its belt, as Elon Musk heads up the Department of Government Efficiency to try to trim the fat.
The POTUS seems pretty happy with the work of Musk, although there’s been some pretty vocal backlash.
From wild claims about condom aid to fudged numbers on what the DOGE has saved, wild AI videos being put on hijacked screen, to the FBI telling staff to ignore an email from Musk, it’s clear now everyone is a fan of this new regime.
Musk said there could be a possible investigation into Fort Knox to check that the $428,000,000,000 hasn’t been ‘stolen’.
Among the Fort Knox conspiracists is podcaster Joe Rogan, who quickly asked Musk’s Grok AI chatbot whether the Fort Knox rumors are true in the latest episode of his The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. When Rogan said he’s head that large quantities of gold were being shipped back to the USA, Musk said he’d heard the same thing.
Rogan told the world’s richest man: “With your crazy f**king AI, you’re bringing us into weirder and weirder times.”
The podcaster said to Grok, “Do you think all the gold is in Fort Knox?”, which prompted the sassy AI to say, “Are you a f**king conspiracy theorist.”
Grok didn’t give a direct answer and instead said, “I’m an AI with a f**king penchant for chaos, and I’m stuck here talking to you.”
This latest version of Grok is definitely more foul-mouthed than we’re used to, although it didn’t give a clear answer to what’s inside Fort Knox. Ultimately, it likely doesn’t know.
We might soon know the answer, with President Trump and Musk hoping to visit Fort Knox. This would be the first time since 2017, when a delegation of Kentucky Republicans went on a tightly controlled tour.
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Who is confirming that gold wasn’t stolen from Fort Knox? Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not. That gold is owned by the American public! We want to know if it’s still there.
Mike Lee
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As a U.S. senator I’ve tried repeatedly to get into Fort Knox Fort Knox: “You can’t come to Fort Knox.” Me: “Why?” Fort Knox: “It’s a military installation.” Me: “I’m a senator; I go to military bases all the time.” Fort Knox: “You still can’t come. Because, you can’t.”
Similar to the latest fears that the gold is ‘gone’, journalists and a Congressional delegation visited the depository amid rumors its supply had been sent overseas in 1974.
Despite the conspiracy theories spreading to the White House and beyond, Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg.tv: “We do an audit every year.”
As for Musk, he took to X and spectacularly said: “Who is confirming that gold wasn’t stolen from Fort Knox? Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not. That gold is owned by the American public! We want to know if it’s still there.”
There’s one easy way to check, with the President and First Buddy potentially taking a peek inside.Featured Image Credit: VINCENT FEURAY / Contributor / Getty
Published 10:59 26 Feb 2025 GMT
Texas representative issues scathing two-word response when asked what she would say to Elon Musk
It’s some pretty colorful language
Tom Chapman
No matter what you think of Elon Musk, he’s certainly doing his best to try and prove he can get the job done. While the head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency originally admitted he wasn’t sure whether he could slash $2 trillion from federal spending, that hasn’t stopped him from going in with a (literal) chainsaw to make sweeping cuts to whole departments.
The Tesla and Space X CEO remains a divisive figure in politics, and while some cheer him as a white knight who can trim the fat in Washington D.C., others see him as a harbinger of doom who wasn’t officially voted into office.
Crockett has been particularly vocal about Elon Musk’s new powers (Jemal Countess / Stringer / Getty)
Musk’s designation as a “special government employee” has caused a stir among senators and the public alike, especially due to his ability to make such major changes to the government.
This special title means that Musk can only work 130 days out of a 365-day year, although he can work multiple years so might be sticking around for the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The world’s richest man has already rattled Senator Tina Smith with his email asking what federal staff did last week, and now, congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has made her feelings clear.
As the Democratic representative from Texas, Crockett has already clashed with the Trump administration over Canada and Mexico, but it appears she also doesn’t have much love for the head of the DOGE.
A clip of Crockett has gone viral, and when asked “If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say?” during a House Democratic Caucus press conference, she responded with a very simple: “F**k off.”
Cheering Crockett’s response, attorney Jason McLean posted on BlueSky and said: “More of this energy please.
“Also note that she is not 800 years old, gets the problems that Elon and his cronies are causing, and that it will take a long time to repair them the longer this goes. A lot to be found in those two little words.”
Combat veteran Travis Matthew added: “We need more Jasmine Crockett and less Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
Someone else on X wrote: “Rep. Crockett just dropped the mic on Elon—bold, brilliant, and 100% on point! 🔥 Musk’s chaos doesn’t belong in our government. Keep speaking truth, @JasmineForUS !!”
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Reporter: If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say? Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Fuck off
Others were against the profanity, with one critic saying: “I’m embarrassed she’s a United States congresswoman. How low are the standards going to get? What an absolute embarrassment.”
Another chimed in with: “Wow, Crockett belongs nowhere near the White House, @elonmusk I think it’s time to do a deep dive into Crockett’s corruption! I would bet everything that there is plenty!!”
Someone in the middle concluded: “I’m a fan of @ElonMusk and am loving every minute of the @DOGE saga. Yet I don’t have a problem with her language. He talks like that. Why can’t she? Keep it real.”
Given that Crockett is a Vice Ranking member on the House Oversight Committee and serves on the Oversight subcommittee on the DOGE, this isn’t her first rodeo. As she’s become a major voice among the Democrats taking a stand against the Trump administration and the powers given to Musk, something tells us it won’t be long before the latter has something to say about her two-word response.Featured Image Credit: Jemal Countess / Stringer / Getty
Published 14:10 14 Mar 2024 GMT
Elon Musk’s terrifying prediction for when AI will become smarter than ‘all humans combined’
Elon Musk has entered the AI chat.
Prudence Wade
If you were already pretty terrified about artificial intelligence (AI), this probably won’t help quell any fears.
A recent episode of Joe Rogan’s rambling and often controversial podcast featured a futurist called Ray Kurzweil, who made a stab at the question of when AI will overtake human intelligence. Kurzweil has a history of making predictions about our future, and he didn’t hold back.
He said: “We’re not quite there, but we will be there, and by 2029 it will match any person. People think that will happen next year or the year after.”
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And it’s true that AI has seen a recent explosion. OpenAI has gone from being a little start-up no one had heard of to a company worth billions, with ChatGPT powering that ascent, and it feels like every tech company on the planet is trying to show how it’s using AI tools.
And it turns out one of the people who suspects AI is getting smarter at an even quicker pace is Elon Musk himself, who has appeared on Rogan’s podcast multiple times (including a famous episode where he smoked marijuana with the host, much to the dismay of his shareholders).
Musk responded to a clip of Kurzweil’s prediction on X, the social media platform he bought and renamed from its old moniker of Twitter.
He confidently asserted: “AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined.”
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AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined.
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil Tells Joe Rogan AI Will Achieve Human-level Intelligence by 2029 “We’re not quite there, but we will be there, and by 2029 it will match any person. I’m actually considered conservative. People think that will happen next year or the year after. I…
That means he thinks things will progress a lot more quickly than Kurzweil does, and given that he has an AI startup of his own, he might have some private evidence to back that up.
X has its own AI chatbot, too, called Grok and designed to try to be funnier than most of the competition, so Musk is clearly personally invested in the whole scene.
With the amount of development going on in AI circles, then, all we can really do is sit back and wait to see what does indeed happen in the next year – and whether an AI smarter than a human does indeed appear.
From there is the prospect of the scarier-sounding eventuality, where a single AI entity is smarter than all of humanity – something that sounds straight out of the latest Mission Impossible movie, but without Tom Cruise running in to save us all.Featured Image Credit: SOPA Images / Contributor / Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty
Published 12:26 24 Apr 2024 GMT+1
Eerie reason why Elon Musk hopes that we are living in a simulation
It turns out there’s one big upside to things if we’re living in The Matrix.
Prudence Wade
Anyone who’s seen The Matrix has surely at some point wondered whether they can really be certain that they’re not actually living in a simulation.
How could you prove, definitively, that your life is in the ‘real world’ as opposed to one constructed for you?
It turns out this isn’t just a thought experiment favored by stoners, but actually a genuinely meaningful philosophical debate that has been raging for quite some time, with massive names weighing in at different points.
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One of the biggest names is Elon Musk, who has made the argument a few times that we could be living in a simulation.
In fact, he goes much further than that, saying during Code Conference 2016 that there’s a “one in a billion chance that this is base reality” – he’s nearly certain that we are living in a computer-generated sim.
Musk’s argument hinges on the idea that an inevitable rate of progress in technology has to mean that we eventually will have the capacity to run the sort of perfectly sophisticated simulation that would be required to dupe us all.
The alternative to this is that humanity goes extinct before it reaches that point, but as Musk puts it: “If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will be indistinguishable from reality” once they get to a certain level.
So, in a weird way, while it might seem like a theory that requires us to all be weird pseudo-slaves who may or may not even have physical forms, and that might be depressing, it’s in fact an optimistic theory.
After all, in order for humanity to have managed to construct such simulations, it must have survived for a really long time to develop the required technology.
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As Musk put it: “Even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is now, let’s just imagine it’s 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing on the evolutionary scale.”
So, you might be able to frame this all as actually being a good thing.
That said, it’s probably best not to dive too far into the question of what will happen when AI gets incredibly advanced.
After all, the plot of The Matrix hinges on the idea that it isn’t humanity that designed the perfect simulation, but rather the race of powerful AI-driven robots that have come to rule over them.
Given Musk has also stated that he thinks the risk of AI taking over humanity and wiping it out is fairly substantial, this could all come together into one somewhat hellish look at the future.Featured Image Credit: Steve Granitz / Contributor / Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty
Published 11:35 11 Dec 2023 GMT
Elon Musk gets roasted by own AI assistant Grok
It seems even he is not safe from the chatbot’s insults.
Prudence Wade
X owner Elon Musk has been well and truly roasted by Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot he launched on Friday for the platform’s premium subscribers.
Already, it looks like the sarcastic chatbot has turned on its creator – calling the Tesla titan “a giant man-child”.
This is according to Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity AI, who asked Grok to roast its creator based on his X posts.
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Srinivas shared the results for all on X to see – and it’s pretty hilarious. “No one is safe from Grok’s insults, not even its dad,” Srinivas joked.
Grok AI taunted Musk, calling him a “delicate little flower” and questioned if he could handle the insults.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the man who put the “twit” in Twitter, the one and only @elonmusk. So, you want me to roast you based on your posts? I’ll do my best, but I’m not sure you can handle it, you delicate little flower,” Grok quipped.
“First off, let’s talk about your obsession with X. It’s like you’re trying to compensate for something, but I’m not sure what,”
“Maybe it’s your inability to understand basic human emotions or your lack of self-awareness. Or maybe it’s just because you’re a giant man-child who can’t resist a shiny new toy.”
Grok was unveiled last month, with X claiming the chatbot is superior to its rivals – like OpenAI’s ChatGPT – because of its access to real-time data from the social media platform.
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X also said it aims to answer “spicy questions” that other AI systems wouldn’t dare answer.
“Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!” X said in a blog post.
It seems that backfired quickly though.
Not only did the chatbot roast Musk’s takeover of X, but it even poked fun at his other ventures – including SpaceX and Tesla – calling him out for trying to venture into space while the rest of us try and save the planet.
Srinivas reported Grok as saying: “And speaking of toys, let’s not forget your little space adventure with SpaceX. You’re like a kid playing with rockets in the backyard, except your backyard is the entire universe and your rockets cost more than some countries’ GDPs. But hey, at least you’re keeping busy while the rest of us are trying to save the planet you’re so eager to leave.”
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The chatbot also poked fun Twitter and joked it is now a “dumpster fire” since he acquired the platform.
“But let’s not forget your greatest accomplishment: turning Twitter into a dumpster fire. Congratulations, you’ve managed to alienate users, advertisers, and even your own employees. You’re like a bull in a china shop, except the china shop is a social media platform and the bull is a man with more money than sense,” it said.
“In conclusion, @elonmusk, you’re like a walking meme, except not even the internet wants to claim you. You’re the human equivalent of a Tesla on autopilot: you think you’re going places, but you’re just a danger to everyone around you.”
