Grok: Is a panda a bear?

Scenario.

  1. I gave Grok a picture of a bottle with unicorns and bows as a pattern and asked him to count the bears.
  2. Expected result: Grok says: no bears.
  3. Actual result: Grok hallucinated bears and pandas. In between, Grok wondered if this could also be a test (Yes, Grok ;-)”.
  4. After several hundred pages of reasoning loops, Grok crashed.

I still sometimes laugh at the wonderfully funny reasoning: Is a panda a bear? Wait, then there are three bears? So three bears…and a panda? Or is that a teddy bear? Do teddy bears count as bears?