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Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by HKH2 »

recursive wrote: post #46
Workaccount2 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's tiresome for just about everyone paying attention to LLMs.

Prepare now. You're going to see it a lot more until there's a general understanding of how these things work. I think it's going to be a while. Even here on HN, I don't think most people understand. I know I don't.

I've seen school kids get LLMs to do their homework assignments for them. They don't care about them not doing math well. They just use them for what they're good for. Then they use other apps to paraphrase/simplify the writing so it looks more natural.

The people who actually have things to do will just get them done.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

A trick I made up this week is to start a chat with an LLM and only ever say “continue”. I tried this with Bard and at first it says “I’m sorry but I’m going to need more information, what do you want to talk about? Here are some things you could ask: (it provides a list)” but if you just keep prompting it with “continue” then after about 20 cycles the form sort of floats around and it can get kinda weird. It’s real interesting.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by phantompeace »

karmakaze wrote: post #129

UX Fail. The first time I clicked the link, I thought it was just another chatbot and exited--I'm so overexposed to them. Then I realized I'd exited without giving it a fair chance, so I opened it again, and looked at the prompt. Ironic I'm being presented with a prompting question. Pondered on it for a while, decided I don't know (or at this point care) what it is and exited a second time.

I love the UX.

No sign up needed. Just start chatting. Change models at any point without leaving the page. Quite refreshing.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by recursive »

nomel wrote: post #121
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…

It's not an LLM for chat as much as augmentation for search, which a chat like interface, with the LLM used to refine/explain/etc.

How do you know? I'm not seeing any info anywhere.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by recursive »

wavemode wrote: post #122

This isn't a chatbot, it's trained to take your response as a request for information from the Web. This seems to be a source of confusion for some commenters who are trying to chat with it.

How did you learn that? How could one be expected to learn that?

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by pfd1986 »

mgreg wrote: post #70

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…

Thanks for the context. I've just tried this and other news on Bard (e.g. stock price for Google) and it works as well, which I wasn't aware of.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by klabb3 »

mgreg wrote: post #70

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…

> 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.

That definitions of “last night” and “football” are time-zone, language and location-dependent, so I don’t know if I’d call that simple. I’d turn this around and suggest en_US bias is a serious usability issue with chat bots. Even with ChatGPT (which is generally great in terms of multi-lingual experience) I have to ask for recipes in metric units even though I’ve already stated in the same conversation that I’m in a European country.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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Post by robbiep »

chankstein38 wrote: post #78

I'm definitely perplexed but not in a good way. It's fast but... I asked it what it was and first it told me it was Google Lens. Then it told me some random stuff about android. I asked "But what are you though?" and got this: "A black hole is a region in space with extremely strong gravity, so powerful that not even light can escape it. They form from the remnants of large stars that die in supernova explosions. Key…

It gave me a black hole answer as well when I asked it what its sources were for a statement it output
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