The way Heinlin used it, grok is a deeper understanding, past comprehension, to the point of something being part of your very soul. To “grok” something is to truly know it with all of your being.
It’s an arrogant name for an AI, which is no surprise based on its owner.
Isn’t grok also a slang word from A Clockwork Orange, meaning to understand, like the way grasp is used?
It comes from a book called A Stranger in a Strange Land written by Robert Heinlein.
The way Heinlin used it, grok is a deeper understanding, past comprehension, to the point of something being part of your very soul. To “grok” something is to truly know it with all of your being.
It’s an arrogant name for an AI, which is no surprise based on its owner.
This is the general meaning of the word “to grok”, as originated in Heinlein’s book “Stranger in a Strange Land”.