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It's honestly one of the better ones I've tried for general questions. I saw it used in a blind competition against ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and amongst people who didn't use LLMs frequently, it was the most favored for 4/5 questions! It's very good at sounding much more natural and less robotic than the others, imo.

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Was it more correct or useful in its output or do you mean it nailed a desirable conversational tone like a pleasantly rendered lorem ipsum.

he might be referring to the data in https://lmarena.ai/

they conduct blind trials were users submit a prompt, and vote on "best answer".

grok holds a very good position in its leaderboard.

In general and quickly chosen "best answer" is perhaps not the best means to analyze such output because people are on average very very stupid and at time of immediate reception less than ideally situated to discern quality of output especially if it concerns data that they aren't intimately familiar with.

For instance the lawyers who submitted briefs with references to fake cases and fake precedents were presumably satisfied with the output at time of reception but less so when they got sanctioned for thousands of dollars for presenting lies to a judge in place of truth.

Just speaking for myself here, but my most natural-sounding conversations with people don't involve them launching into rants about white genocide in Africa regardless of conversation context, but maybe I'm setting my bar too high.

Just like talking to Grandpa!

If that's your only argument, it's a bad one.

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