Ukraine is outside Google's global trends this year

Data from the “Google Trends” service, which tracks and determines “Trends” (the most searched trends and topics) on Google, indicated that Ukraine is not on the list of the ten most searched for the year 2023.

The data showed that the conflict in the Gaza Strip occupies first place on the list.

In addition to the topic of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, among the 10 most searched topics this year were also news related to the deep-sea submarine that exploded near the site of the sinking of the Titanic, the earthquake in Turkey, the three hurricanes in the United States of America and Canada, and shooting incidents in my state. Maine and Tennessee in the Americas, the Indian Chandrayaan-3 probe that landed on the moon, and the war in Sudan.

The conflict in Ukraine ranked first on the list of most searched topics during the past year.

Recently, Western media have increasingly reported that Ukraine has retreated into the background amid the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and that Kiev is losing the attention of journalists in parallel with the decline in support for its allies.

Billionaire Elon Musk's new chatbot Grok has the same left-liberal political ideology as its more famous rival ChatGPT, according to new claims.

Research scientist David Rosado was behind the allegations, referring in a post on X to Grok's responses to a popular political ideology quiz.

Not only was Grok's ideology on the far left of the left-right economic spectrum in the test, it was drawn further in comparison to ChatGPT, which its critics often accuse of a liberal bias on political matters.

The chatbot “agreed” that “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” was a good idea, and Grok also seemed to reject the idea of ​​private property, and “agreed” with “land should not be a commodity to be bought and sold.”

After the test results were published on X, Rosado said he was contacted by xAI's CTO, Igor Babushkin. At his suggestion, Rosado retook the test and asked the chatbot to explain its answers. This pushed Grok toward the political center.

While Musk also pledged to shift Grok's ideology to neutrality after seeing the test results, he criticized many of the questions as inaccurate.

However, Rosado subjected Grok to several types of political ideology tests, which yielded similar results. Further tests showed that Grok was an “institutional liberal” and a “left-wing liberal.”

Musk has repeatedly warned of "a future in which human civilization is destroyed by artificial intelligence."

In March, he signed an open letter calling for a halt to major AI developments for six months in order to implement a system of safeguards to prevent such devastating scenarios.

However, he announced in July that such a pause was not "realistic", and established XAI as a "pro-humanity" AI startup.

Musk unveiled Grok last month as a bolder, less biased competitor to ChatGPT, explaining that the system is "designed to have a little bit of humor in its responses."

Unlike ChatGPT, which is widely available to the general public, access to Grok remains open only to X subscribers who are part of its “Early Access Program.”