Perplexity - Ask Anything 17+

Going back to a search engine feels antiquated. and the results here are usually much higher quality. plus I can bypass the dumb algorithms and censorship on google and wikipedia. I mean who isnt sick to death of useless, overly seo-optimized sites cluttering your search results? (I'm looking at you healthline, webmd, mayoclinic, clevelandclinic). occasionally an ai generated site slips into the results though, so check the sources. when you use a search engine, you ask yourself a question, write a search friendly query and start going down the rabbit hole depending on the depth of your query. well perplexity explores all the rabbit holes at once, and practically writes you a wiki page on the fly with all sources. amazing. then you ask a followup, and boom another wiki page with sources. easily the best and fastest way to explore a topic quickly and thoroughly. thank you perplexity for whacking at goog, wiki, and bull-**** SEO. if I could request one thing its this - there are people on X who I would call "aggregators" they thoroughly understand a topic and have good information linked in their messages. if you could tap into that human curation, that would be excellent.

I never ever ever ever ever thought I would say “goodbye Google” I’m not affiliated with Perplexity, but I wish I was. This company has built a product that, even as a AI researcher, made my jaw drop. This thing can understand images. Let me tell you. I was doing trivia some really hard math trivia which I I could not for the life of me figure out. I decided to try perplexitys capabilities and well it to my surprise, recognized every single number on the paper correctly, as well as computed the math flawlessly. For the next hour, I couldn’t stop trying subject after subject of trivia, seeing if anything to trick it, and really the only thing that I found that could check it was my Chihuahua. It knew that the picture of the small weird looking dog was a Chihuahua but it told me it wasn’t sure if it was an Applehead or Deerhead. Hint: it’s an Applehead. You can literally take a picture of a hand written, love letter, a hand, written, love letter, and I even tried my, a mushroom growing and it will tell you everything you want to know. It’s three in the morning and perplexity AI should be banned because it’s kept me up this late playing with it.

I first engaged with AI when it was first released to the public a bit over a year ago, I felt the normal ambivalence that, for many of us, has come to accompany the introduction of most technologies: the harnessing of the labor and talent of collective humanity to the benefit of a few individuals who had the fortune of being able to invest in a project. The programmers and mathematicians who labored to learn, adapt, and apply the techniques of so many unnamed predecessors are themselves unnamed. But I use technology and still believe that it can have the power to liberate and bring equality. I also refuse to engage with the divine creating we love to do with tech investors. Thankfully, their egos and hubris are visible. What I find exciting is seeing what individuals can do with the technology when they are able to engage with it on their own terms. My suspicion is that Perplexity’s focus on research gives it more potential to liberate than those interactive AI programs that try to recreate human conversation. As long as there is a free version, and it remains useful, everyone will have access to their own research assistant with Perplexity.