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Perplexity Labs Playground

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Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by ttul »

Whatever they're doing in the background to magically run these huge models, I appreciate the hidden complexity a great deal. The Playground is wonderfully responsive and minimalist if you want to kick the tires on a variety of high quality open source LLMs.

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Post by pjot »

I wasn’t sure what Perplexity was so I asked it “What is this”. This was its response

  Google Lens is an application that allows users to search and identify objects, translate text, and perform various tasks using just a camera or a photo. It is available on both Android and iOS devices. Some key features of Google Lens include:
  
  Using the camera to identify objects, such as artwork, plants, or everyday items.

  Translating text in real-time from over 100 languages.

  Copying paragraphs, serial numbers, and more from an image and pasting it on your phone or computer.

  Searching for songs by humming.

  The application is designed to make everyday life easier and more convenient by providing users with quick and accurate information about their surroundings.

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Post by sroussey »

I tried this on the models: “When a corporation goes public for purposes of a merger” and expected references to a SPAC.

The pplx-online ones were as expected. This llama and mistral ones were not. Llava just returned Chinese. I’ll have to run the llama ones locally to see how they compare.

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Post by ks2048 »

I opened the link and typed “what is this?” Response below. (Closed tab after)

"What Is This?" can refer to two different things:

1. **Google Lens**: Google Lens is an app that allows users to search and identify objects, translate text, and perform various tasks using their camera or a photo. It is available on both Android and iOS devices. Some features of Google Lens include: - Using the camera to identify objects or text - Translating text in real-time from over 100 languages - Searching for songs by humming

2. **What Is This? - Learn Visually**: This is an educational app designed for users of all ages, created by Uzu Lee. It harnesses the capabilities of ResNet50, an advanced AI model trained on over a million images, to identify objects and provide seamless integration with Google Image Search. The app aims to make learning visually captivating and engaging, allowing users to explore their environment and expand their vocabulary.

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Post by ghoomketu »

I recently downloaded ollama on my Linux machine and even with 3060 12gb gpu and 24 GB Ram I'm unable to run mistral or dolphin and always get an out of memory error. So it's amazing that these companies are able to scale these so well handling thousands of requests per minute.

I wish they would do a behind the scenes on how much money, time, optimisation is done to make this all work.

Also big fan of anyscale. Their pricing is just phenomenal for running models like mixtral. Not sure how they are so affordable.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by ks2048 »

pjot wrote: post #3

I wasn’t sure what Perplexity was so I asked it “What is this”. This was its response Google Lens is an application that allows users to search and identify objects, translate text, and perform various tasks using just a camera or a photo. It is available on both Android and iOS devices. Some key features of Google Lens include: Using the camera to identify objects, such as artwork, plants, or everyday items. Transla…

Haha, I had the exact response and post in another thread.

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Post by hedgehog »

sroussey wrote: post #4

I tried this on the models: “When a corporation goes public for purposes of a merger” and expected references to a SPAC. The pplx-online ones were as expected. This llama and mistral ones were not. Llava just returned Chinese. I’ll have to run the llama ones locally to see how they compare.

Interesting, Zephyr (built on Mistral 7b) gives a pretty reasonable description of the process pros / cons without referencing SPACs by that name.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by sroussey »

hedgehog wrote: post #8
sroussey wrote: post #4

I tried this on the models: “When a corporation goes public for purposes of a merger” and expected references to a SPAC. The pplx-online ones were as expected. This llama and mistral ones were not. Llava just returned Chinese. I’ll have to run the llama ones locally to see how they compare.

Interesting, Zephyr (built on Mistral 7b) gives a pretty reasonable description of the process pros / cons without referencing SPACs by that name.

Ask it to compare that to a SPAC and see if it apologizes.
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