{"slug": "colman-domingo-responds-to-elon-musk-planning-a-historically-accurate-ai-odyssey", "title": "Colman Domingo responds to Elon Musk planning a historically accurate AI Odyssey", "summary": "Colman Domingo, guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, mocked Elon Musk's plan to use Grok AI to create a 'historically accurate' version of The Odyssey, calling the idea absurd because the epic poem is fiction. Domingo criticized Musk for complaining about diversity casting in Christopher Nolan's upcoming adaptation and questioned why Musk isn't focusing on his Mars mission instead.", "body_md": "In case you missed it, [Elon Musk wants to make his own version](https://mashable.com/entertainment/elon-musk-odyssey-grok) of Christopher Nolan's [ The Odyssey](https://mashable.com/entertainment/the-odyssey-review-christopher-nolan) using\n\n[Grok](https://mashable.com/tech/musk-grok-4-5-launch)— and\n\n[guest host Colman Domingo has some thoughts.](https://mashable.com/category/jimmy-kimmel-live)\n\n*Jimmy Kimmel Live!*\"Now Elon Musk is planning to create what he calls a 'historically accurate' version of *The Odyssey*, using his Grok AI,\" Domingo says in the clip above. \"And by 'historically accurate', he means whiter than Christmas at Cracker Barrel. Of course this is all because Elon and his Musketeers are upset over the diversity casting of *The Odyssey*. And I don't wanna get technical here, but you can't make a historically accurate version of something that is totally made the f*** up.\n\n\"I mean, *The Odyssey* is fiction. You know, like *The Hunger Games*, or the president's cognitive exams. I mean come on, doesn't Elon Musk have better things to do? Wasn't this bitch supposed to be on Mars by now?\"\n\n*Want more of the best of late night? Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter*\n\n*.*\nTopics\n[Jimmy Kimmel Live](https://mashable.com/category/jimmy-kimmel-live)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/colman-domingo-responds-to-elon-musk-planning-a-historically-accurate-ai-odyssey", "canonical_source": "https://mashable.com/entertainment/elon-musk-ai-odyssey-colman-domingo-kimmel", "published_at": "2026-07-23 08:11:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 08:39:10.926478+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Colman Domingo", "Elon Musk", "Grok", "Christopher Nolan", "The Odyssey", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/colman-domingo-responds-to-elon-musk-planning-a-historically-accurate-ai-odyssey", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/colman-domingo-responds-to-elon-musk-planning-a-historically-accurate-ai-odyssey.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/colman-domingo-responds-to-elon-musk-planning-a-historically-accurate-ai-odyssey.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/colman-domingo-responds-to-elon-musk-planning-a-historically-accurate-ai-odyssey.jsonld"}}