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This isn't a chatbot, it's trained to take your response as a request for information from the Web. This seems to be a source of confusion for some commenters

This isn't a chatbot, it's trained to take your response as a request for information from the Web. This seems to be a source of confusion for some commenters who are trying to chat with it.

recursive 3y ago
How did you learn that? How could one be expected to learn that?
- MaximilianEmel 3y ago
  If you click on the top right "Try Perplexity", it brings you to the main page where it shows more information. On that page, (bottom right) theres a ? button where you can find help articles that tell more about what it is.
  - recursive 3y ago
    There's at least one more step for me at least. I had to close a pop up panel about "Sign in or create an account". There was no indication that anything was behind it. If the were trying to hide the true nature of this thing, they'd be doing a great job.
- addandsubtract 3y ago
  LLMs are like the wild west. Things are moving fast and no one is really documenting things for outsiders. The only way to learn these things is by using them. If you tried out Oobabooga, you would know that each LLM needs their own template instructions to understand its input and respond correctly. More recent tools, like Ollama, have these instructions included with the models. However, there are still different types of models available through Ollama. Some of them are suffixed with "instruct" which tells you that you can use them like a chat bot, whereas other "main" models only do completions and spit out gibberish if you ask them a question.
ByThyGrace 3y ago
I think it is indeed a chatbot, as OP posted it, but to test with different LLMs. The main website/app is OTOH meant to be an AI-assisted conversational search tool. Like phind.com, but general purpose.
Mariehane 3y ago
It seems most commenters here are trying to use the default model, which is akin to chatting with non-tuned GPT. There is a 7b-chat model, which answers perfectly to questions like “who are you?”

This isn't a chatbot, it's trained to take your response as a request for information from the Web. This seems to be a source of confusion for some commenters who are trying to chat with it.

recursive 3y ago

How did you learn that? How could one be expected to learn that?

MaximilianEmel 3y ago
If you click on the top right "Try Perplexity", it brings you to the main page where it shows more information. On that page, (bottom right) theres a ? button where you can find help articles that tell more about what it is.
- recursive 3y ago
  There's at least one more step for me at least. I had to close a pop up panel about "Sign in or create an account". There was no indication that anything was behind it. If the were trying to hide the true nature of this thing, they'd be doing a great job.
addandsubtract 3y ago
LLMs are like the wild west. Things are moving fast and no one is really documenting things for outsiders. The only way to learn these things is by using them. If you tried out Oobabooga, you would know that each LLM needs their own template instructions to understand its input and respond correctly. More recent tools, like Ollama, have these instructions included with the models. However, there are still different types of models available through Ollama. Some of them are suffixed with "instruct" which tells you that you can use them like a chat bot, whereas other "main" models only do completions and spit out gibberish if you ask them a question.

ByThyGrace 3y ago

I think it is indeed a chatbot, as OP posted it, but to test with different LLMs. The main website/app is OTOH meant to be an AI-assisted conversational search tool. Like phind.com, but general purpose.

Mariehane 3y ago

It seems most commenters here are trying to use the default model, which is akin to chatting with non-tuned GPT. There is a 7b-chat model, which answers perfectly to questions like “who are you?”