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Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by month13 »

bee_rider wrote: post #45
suobset wrote: post #41

I love (read, hate) the trend of using Serif fonts and marketing material that pull on nostalgic vibes. Surely, AI has been revolutionary in its own regard, for better or worse. But, the more they go into 80/90s style advertising, the more the allure of it dies. Also this "system" just seems vulnerable af.

Could it just be a new trend? There are just two options in this case (serifs or no), so I’d expect it to flip back and forth sometimes. The broader trend is pulling back a bit on “minimalism,” right? I think we hit peak (or valley?) minimalism already so I guess there’s only one way to go.

Serifs are so back and I'm so excited.

Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by bloody-crow »

mikewarot wrote: post #47

Who in their right mind is going to blindly trust an AI like that? There wasn't any review of the numbers, or even a hint of a "sniff test" on the output of the AI? Would a real person risk their reputation like that? -- With regard to the attempted redefinition of a commonly used term, I'm reminded of Gretchen, from the Mean Girls, trying to redefine "Fetch!"[1] It's just not going to happen. [1] https://www.imdb.co…

A few years ago I would not believe that AI would be able to write code better than me. Today I barely write any code, Claude is responsible for 95% of my code output.

Maybe in a couple of iterations, you'd be able to trust the AI to straight up drive your computer with access to all important parts of your digital life most of the time and only occasionally have to manually stop it from wiring all your savings and 401k to a struggling Nigerian prince.

Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by artdigital »

It took me a while to understand what this is, but if I understand it right it's a OpenClaw you can run on your Mac Mini, to then use through the Perplexity Computer interface (which is their hosted OpenClaw version that you costs credits)

So a more polished OpenClaw that integrates with Perplexity?

In general interesting, if it's not just limited to Mac Minis. Would love to put this on my VPS that's currently running OpenClaw

Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by Tempest1981 »

gizajob wrote: post #64
jcims wrote: post #32

From the blog post ( https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/everything-is-computer ) >Personal Computer runs on a dedicated Mac mini that can run 24/7, connected to your local apps and Perplexity’s secure servers.

Ohhh so it’s just openclaw. Innovative.

Yep. Perplexity offers this comparison/recommendation:

Choose Perplexity Computer if you: want a managed, safer, minimal‑setup agent for research, content, presentations, and business workflows, and you’re fine paying a subscription for a polished cloud experience.

Choose OpenClaw if you: are technical, want local code execution and device automation, prefer full control over models/tools, and are willing to own the security and troubleshooting burden.

Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by hbosch »

paxys wrote: post #25

Whatever happened to Preplexity? They were all the rage a year or two ago, and now I hear...nothing. Is the product still being used? Making money? Or just overtaken by the base LLMs it was relying on?

When better standalone LLMs got "web crawling skills" integrated, it pretty much destroyed the need to ever lean on PPLX again. Perplexity is actually not a bad product, but other services like ChatGPT and Claude can do it's best thing pretty good, and do other things much better.

One thing I noticed is that whatever harness PPLX wraps around the models, the output is noticeably lower quality in aggregate. I assume some kind of token compression being used before passing your query to a given model but to my knowledge that's never been proven or confirmed?

Anyways, I get the most value out of coding and PPLX has seemingly pivoted away from that. Probably a good play to not try and compete directly with Claude Code/Codex and find a better niche, but I am not sure who or what their market is. Lovely design, however.

Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by jazzpush2 »

nine_k wrote: post #74
Avicebron wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What does it mean? Does clicking on a link counts as labor. I think we might be seeing what happens when people are being paid too much to spend all day emailing each other and jockeying excel/gantt charts/org charts. Yeah for some definition of "work" I guarantee that a LLM could perform 3.25 years worth in four weeks.

>> Harvard, MIT > people are being paid too much to spend all day emailing each other Hmm, this does not sound exactly right. Also, does anybody seriously think that communication is not work, or is not important? A number of really impactful things started from people emailing each other. (Hell, Linux kernel development is still much about people emailing patches each other.)

I have several friends at the big 4 who work ~2 hour weeks.
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