Perplexity is the first generalized AI chatbot I’ve found useful enough to integrate into any part of my daily workflow, much less across multiple domains. It speeds me up enough that I’m planning an increase in my freelancing rate.

Perplexity has three key advantages:

It provides citations, cleanly, in context
It has the persona of a sharp human instead of an intolerable customer service agent.
It is useful (and sufferable) across a wide variety of domains.

The citations are a bigger deal than they sound at first. I could of course google anything ChatGPT tells me and check the results, but that's costly. I have to spin up a new mental thread (and browser tab), sort through Google's increasingly shitty results, remember what claim I’m trying to check… the process eats up a lot of working memory at a time [...]

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Outline:

(01:49) Test Questions

(02:25) How do fractals relate to chaos theory?

(03:11) Perplexity (link to result including citations)

(03:24) Self-Similarity and Complex Patterns

(03:43) Visualization of Chaotic Processes

(04:11) Characteristics of Complex Systems

(04:27) Applications in Financial Markets

(05:01) Relationship to Complexity Theory

(05:54) ChatGPT 4o

(07:58) Claude

(09:24) Google Search AI Summary

(10:56) How long after antibiotics is bordatello not contagious in cats?

(12:02) Perplexity (link to results including citations)

(13:39) ChatGPT-4o

(15:21) Claude 3.5

(16:45) Google Search AI summary

(16:54) Is the Aegis Shield Playful?

(17:19) Perplexity

(17:48) ChatGPT 4o

(18:31) Claude 3.5

(19:32) Google Search AI summary

(19:38) Conclusion

(19:55) Acknowledgements and (lack of) COI

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First published:
August 24th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CcJ2YWPqcMsWg8vGt/perplexity-wins-my-ai-race-1

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Perplexity wins my AI race ” by Elizabeth

LessWrong (30+ Karma)