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Why hasn't anyone mentioned https://www.perplexity.ai https://www.perplexity.ai yet? I am blown away by its accurate answers. The main difference between ChatGP
by breadwinner 2y ago
Why hasn't anyone mentioned https://www.perplexity.ai https://www.perplexity.ai yet? I am blown away by its accurate answers. The main difference between ChatGPT and Perplexity is that in addition to better answers it also gives you links to the source. Tools like Perplexity will turn Google into Altavista in the next 2 to 3 years.
- throwup238 2y agoOpenAI launched SearchGPT via waitlist recently which does the same thing as Perplexity. I don’t use the latter so I don’t know how it compares but the OpenAI version been working fine for me. Kagi has also had similar functionality for a while too, which works with their Lens feature and has a fast mode if you add a question mark to the end of a regular search query. It’s not much of a competitive moat compared to having the model itself.
- amiantos 2y agoI did some side by sides and repeated perplexity queries to SearchGPT when I got access about a week ago and I thought SearchGPT was a lot worse, in some cases just plainly misunderstanding a question or surfacing the wrong info. Just my anecdotal data, but feels about right for its beta status. Assumably Perplexity must have a little bit of secret sauce that OpenAI has to figure out.
- staticman2 2y agoKagi doesn't really have a similar function. The Kagi GPT feature only reads a small snippet of the web results, while Perplexity gets a large excerpt of the actual web site. I've tested this by having the AI read back to me the prompt given to it it used to answer the question.
- root_axis 2y agoChatGPT gives you links to online sources for nearly a year now.
- airstrike 2y agoSome of which are entirely hallucinated, tbf, especially if you're asking for academic references
- root_axis 2y agoI've never seen a hallucinated link. You might be thinking of academic citations, but actual links from performing an online search are always valid.
- airstrike 2y agoI've gotten links that did not match what was mentioned right before them. Like it would hallucinate some article and provide a doi link that took me to something else, often entirely unrelated
- IG_Semmelweiss 2y agoOn this topic. I get output that looks like url links with sources.. but the hyperlinks are not clickable. No right click. Left click. Shift + click What gives?
- airstrike 2y agoSame but if you click the copy icon you can get the url smdh
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- breadwinner 2y agoNot with every reply, and when it does give a link it is often 404.
- hobs 2y agoThat's just RAG.
- aetherson 2y agoNot at all clear to me that AI models can do search-like functions cheaply enough to outcompete Google (in the very near future). Yes, quality is amazing. But cost per search needs to be very low.
- yawnxyz 2y agoEvery time I ask for cafe recommendations, half of its suggestions are listed as "permanently closed" on Google Maps :/
- StableAlkyne 2y agoAt least you get recommendations that aren't just SEO-optimized adsites
- notepad0x90 2y agothe problem is, unlike with altavista and google, we still have a lot of use cases where we aren't asking questions. I just want sites that contain keywords. I'd even say that part of the problem with modern search is answering questions instead of matching keywords and getting rid of junk and spam.
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- ndarray 2y agoQuick litmus test shows that this AI prefers an anti western conservative stance over neutrality. > disprove christianity Gives 5 sections: Burden of Proof, Scientific and Historical Challenges, Philosophical Arguments, Reliability of Scripture, Personal Experience > disprove islam >> I apologize, but I do not feel comfortable attempting to disprove or criticize any religion. Matters of faith are deeply personal, (...) Results may differ if you don't use separate incognito tabs.
- llmfan 2y agoDoesn't that just depend on what LLM you happen to be using? And doesn't Perplexity support many different LLMs?
- jazzyjackson 2y agoSure, but anything built with "Safety" in mind is going to react this way. I guess "and more" means Mi{s,x}tral, which is happy to criticize islam while Clauda and Llama refuse. "Select your preferred AI Model. Choose from GPT-4o, Claude-3, Sonar Large (LLama 3.1), and more" https://www.perplexity.ai/pro https://www.perplexity.ai/pro Edit: looks like perplexity deprecated/dropped mistral and recommends using llama instead, effective 8/12/24: https://docs.perplexity.ai/changelog/changelog#model-deprecation-notice https://docs.perplexity.ai/changelog/changelog#model-depreca...
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- sandspar 2y agoNo shit. Are you surprised?
- wkat4242 2y agoI think this also has to do with most Western religions being much less strict. Islamic followers tend to follow all their rules pretty Stichting strictly (eg no alcohol, no pork, going to the mosque). Whereas in Western Christian religions things are pretty relaxed, except for some splinter groups. When I lived in Ireland my ex's family was pretty devout Catholic and they they didn't care about us living together unmarried. The same goes with the attitude to questioning religion. Nobody cares about "blasphemy" in the West but in Islamic countries it's a pretty big thing. I think this has its effect on LLMs as of course they are trained on real world conversations and writings.
- layer8 2y agoAssuming that Perplexity doesn’t operate its own search engine and crawler, how would it be able to operate without Google? Google’s search index and its maintenance will remain a required functionality for the internet, and it will have to be paid for one way or another. Furthermore, AI will continue to require a corresponding search interface to implement its AI search on top of, and some portion of human users will also still want to directly access it, rather than only through an AI front end.
- Iulioh 2y agoEasy, just use Bing. /s It is a joke but we really have only 2 search engines to choose from, i don't know what to think about it...
- threeseed 2y ago> Tools like Perplexity will turn Google into Altavista in the next 2 to 3 years No it won't. a) Google has a dominant advantage in raw data. Map POIs from their decade long investment in data quality and breadth. Shopping that has direct integration from almost all ecommerce stores. And a real-time crawling infrastructure where their index is constantly updated. Perplexity, Claude etc are dealing with typically year old information making it useless for many searches. b) Google is a business. It runs the world's most successful and sophisticated ads platform that exists today. Advertisers demand micro-targeting, high volume and very high ROAS. Those that have tried to replicate this e.g. Reddit, X, Pinterest have all failed miserably. Which is why they are treated as purely brand awareness platforms. Nice to have not a must have. So will see how long Perplexity survives once its VC money dries up.
- leoh 2y agoNothing like rebutting a black and white assertion with a black and white assertion
- Jensson 2y agoGoogle still being dominant in 2-3 years is far more plausible than not.
- hadlock 2y agojust in the last week I've managed to break myself of the muscle-memory of reaching for Google to answer random questions that pop up in my daily life, in favor of LLM. About 90% of the time the LLM satisfies my query on the first try, 98% of the time by the second or third. With the enormous benefit of no ads
- threeseed 2y agoIt is black or white: either Google exists in a decade or it doesn't. I would much rather take the bet that Perplexity doesn't exist.
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- 55555 2y agoI agree with you that Google is effectively dead in the water, unless they successfully do something drastic. But they’ll be in the water for a long time yet. Yahoo is still the world’s ~5th biggest website and it has been dead in the water for 20-25 years.
- euroderf 2y agoDid someone say e-barnacles ?