AI and the Search for Answers | Aravind Srinivas | Perplexity.ai
Large Language Models as a Copilot for Life
Perplexity allows you to ask questions and receive answers supported by citations from online sources: Wikipedia-meets-AI. I spoke with Aravind Srinivas, founder and CEO of Perplexity.ai, the company behind it. They use a combination of GPT, good UI/UX and a lot of behind the-scenes magic to equip you with an artificial intelligence that can make you more informed, smarter--and maybe even more compassionate.
Aravind talks about how AI has the potential to increase the value of all of our time—and help us become more creative, perform better science and engineering, and make better life decisions. It’s a vision I share with him, and I’m excited to watch as Perplexity makes further advancements. Enjoy my conversation with him:
Show Notes
Perplexity is using something similar to notability guidelines on Wikipedia for establishing what sources to use ion citations.
We spoke about open-source LLM models and how they’ll expand the market beyond what we’ve already seen with applications like ChatGPT. A bit after I spoke with Aravind, Meta announced that they’re open-sourcing their LLM, Llama, including for commercial applications.
We also discussed Falcon-40B, another highly competent LLM that is available in open source. Find it on Hugging Face here.