Posted on 07/05/2024 3:02:39 PM PDT by dennisw
That one is good.
I asked it, What is the quote from T.S. Elliot about having to kill a woman? It was the only one that answered that question.
I tried it, not impressed. It says it is limited to the info fed it—garbage in, garbage out. I asked several questions and didn’t get correct answers. After prompting it with correct links, it answered with my info.
Ping.
If you want to compare apples to apples compare Copilot to Claude.
Perplexity should have picked more and better references to formulate an answer since there are sufficient original sources, and books and articles written by recognized history professors and others referencing original sources, readily available on the internet.
Of course I selected the question because some of the available publications give the right answer on some pages and the wrong answer on other pages. One author, who has written numerous publications touching on the question, has the right answer in some of his publications and the wrong answer in his other publications.
If an AI program like Perplexity simply "googles" key words in my question and grabs a few linked references to prepare its answer to my question, it is not likely to come up with a correct answer. A good AI program will need to compare many references (some in different languages), distinguish any differing views, interpretations, author biases, and contradictions. Then the AI program needs to weigh the differing views, perhaps using Bayesian statistics, to arrive at an answer or at least answers that include documented reasons why they differ.
You don’t understand AI do you?
Claude is more ChatGPT competitor than CoPilot. CoPilot is trained on the current web/news, hency why it got the Fani willis answer correct and perplexity only somewhat correct
Perplexity in turn uses biased search engines.
If you ask Perplexity what it is it used to say Claude but not anymore. Is it a separate LLM or just a front end to Claude or whatever? Since Claude and Perplexity are both from Anthropic I’ve got to think there is a lot of crossover.
Had to get personal didn't you?
What does that say about you?
Perplexity uses on-going, practically real-time updating although it’s not refered to as training. I asked questions about the Trump-Biden debate early the next morning and got answers.
"Perplexity AI does not publicly disclose exactly which large language model (LLM) I use as my backend. Based on the available information, Perplexity has developed its own online LLMs called pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online, which can access real-time information from the internet. These models are based on open-sourced models like mistral-7b and llama2-70b, which have been fine-tuned by Perplexity."
That is training. Or it’s just a search engine. LOL.
Sounds a lot like copilot who uses Bing as it’s web scraper to gather information. In fact, it appears they pretty much just copied the copilot free model.
It’s not personal. Calling someone ugly or stupid is getting personal. Asking if someone understands AI when we are talking about AI is clarifying how much background you need so I don’t talk down to you.
The fact that you took it personal actually tells a ton about you.
Just ask it: George Floyd.
Standard Floyd murdered by cop answer.
But, for stuff like What is the average price of a used 2015 Prius, it will look at a lot of sites and give an average and a summary, and some of its sources.
I could to that with a lot of my own searches and paper notes, but it is simpler and quicker. Still, I consider it just an overview and I dig deeper if more important to me.
Thanks! I will be trying out the other AI search engines that Freepers have mentioned.
I only use AI for internet searches. Not for helping me write something. At least so far.
How about bitcoin, stock market and gold n silver. Has any AI site helped anyone here with AI predictions?
I asked Perpexlity what AI engine is uses...and it uses OpenAI. Pretty much same as ChatGPT and CoPilot.
It really appears to have copied copilots free model for new searching as it even includes links to where it got its info from just like Copilot does.
I guess imitation is the best form of flattery.
How about bitcoin, stock market and gold n silver. Has any AI site helped anyone here with AI predictions?
It is NOT training. Training is an independent function that occurs completely separately from inferential mode.
And then there are all the different Claude platforms: Haiku, Opus, and Sonnet.
I subscribed to Claude for a while and lost track of which platform I was using. When Claude started becoming slow to respond, I shifted by subscription to ChatGPT.
I use AI for my daily work so I jump between ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, depending on what I'm working on.
I stopped using Copilot and Gemini quite a while ago because they made so many errors. That said, I hear they have improved.
It most certainly does NOT use OpenAI and would be sued if it did.
Refer to #51
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