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Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by gigglesupstairs » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #39

So like... what am I supposed to be looking at here? Is it supposed to make me perplexed? > Hello! How can I help you? > I have no idea. I was given this link without any expectation that you could help me. What's this all about? > The concept of "no_search" is a feature that allows users to prevent a search engine from searching the internet for an answer. This feature is being introduced in Bing Chat, as mentioned…

Haha something similar it did with my query as well.

> Hello! How can I help you?

> How can you help me?

> It seems that your question is not clear, and the search results provided are mostly related to songs titled "Help Me" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Joni Mitchell. If you need assistance with a different topic or have a specific question, please feel free to ask, and I will do my best to provide a helpful and informative answer.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by chankstein38 » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

supafastcoder wrote: post #32

I asked “what is this” and it responded with: 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 lan…

That's what I got too. Since I had no idea when clicking. Seems potentially not useful.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by Angostura » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 7:46 PM UTC

Who are you:

"I am an AI, and my name is Robert Liu. I was created by Perplexity to help users with their questions and provide accurate information"

Previously it told me it's name was 'John'

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by its-summertime » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 7:49 PM UTC

> It's important to remember that we are all human beings

I don't think so.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by flockonus » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 7:53 PM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #63

Who are you: "I am an AI, and my name is Robert Liu. I was created by Perplexity to help users with their questions and provide accurate information" Previously it told me it's name was 'John'

I asked for it to make up lyrics, when i asked who are you i got:

My name is Eminem, and I am an American rapper. I gained fame with my second album, "The Slim Shady LP" (1999), which features the song "My Name Is" as its opening track and lead single. The song samples British singer Labi Siffre's "Cha-Cha-Cha" and has become one of Eminem's most iconic tracks.

So yeah... its hallucinations are heavily context based.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by instagary » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 7:56 PM UTC

Feature request for the online model.

It would be great get a sources array in the response. This would make the API stand out compared to others and allow product teams to add AI w/o being afraid of hallucinations.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by IceMichael » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 7:58 PM UTC

So what is the USP of this one against the others? I tried my simple favorite one where all of these tools fail (prompt has more details): Write a script that converts git-diff output to a file that can be easily grepped by filename and linenumber.

Never works. And I point then to the errors to clarify in quite a few iterations. Will never be fixed. I did not find any tool that can do that.

The answer from this tool is just the same garbage than with ChatGPT. Not better, not worse, same shit.

Maybe... we don't need more of these?

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by ilaksh » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 7:58 PM UTC

TheMatten wrote: post #16

ghoomketu wrote: post #6

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…

I can reasonably run (quantized) Mistral-7B on a 16GB machine without GPU, using ollama. Are you sure it isn't a configuration error or bug?

How many tokens per second and what are the specs of the machine? My attempts at CPU only have been really slow.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 8:00 PM UTC

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Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by mgreg » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 8:01 PM UTC

The online models to a decent job of proving up-to-date info. Simple inputs like "who won the football game last night" provided the correct score and a little detail on the NFL's Monday Night game. Did well with some other queries that require current info.

Their blog [1] states they use their own index: "In-house search technology: our in-house search, indexing, and crawling infrastructure allows us to augment LLMs with the most relevant, up to date, and valuable information. Our search index is large, updated on a regular cadence, and uses sophisticated ranking algorithms to ensure high quality, non-SEOed sites are prioritized. Website excerpts, which we call “snippets”, are provided to our pplx-online models to enable responses with the most up-to-date information."

Anyone know what their bot name is or any insight into their indexing? Impressive that they are not relying on Bing/Google/Brave/?.

1. https://blog.perplexity.ai/blog/introducing-pplx-online-llms