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Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by mygooch »

SirensOfTitan wrote: post #31

The generic elevator music used for the demo video is highly representative of this whole concept: generic and derivative. Seriously though, Perplexity, like most of the AI wrapper companies, seems unable to innovate much beyond the query-response chat paradigm. I don't understand why VCs continue to fund these ai-slop companies. I see a new company's advertisements on the NY subway every week, and they're all the sa…

It's what grads do after school - create an AI startup.

If you went to the right school, you can be a Series A company with nothing more than an OPENAI_API_KEY. Most of the young and inexperienced founders mentally retire at this point and start their family planning.

There were a few cities like "Austin", but now I guess it's just SF and NY again (I'm in SF).

The students get what they paid for.

The school gets their metrics.

The VCs get returns, from the increased revenue their portfolios just paid for by investing in their kid's startup.

And the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin!

Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by mygooch »

ryandrake wrote: post #58
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #31

The generic elevator music used for the demo video is highly representative of this whole concept: generic and derivative. Seriously though, Perplexity, like most of the AI wrapper companies, seems unable to innovate much beyond the query-response chat paradigm. I don't understand why VCs continue to fund these ai-slop companies. I see a new company's advertisements on the NY subway every week, and they're all the sa…

I'd be willing to bet that every wannabe CEO out there is spooging after seeing that demo. That's clearly the target market: The wantrepreneurs who would surely have their brilliant successful business if only they didn't have to hire a bunch of lazy employees to half-ass it! "If only I could just speak my vague ideas to my computer, and it could do all the hard work of building and running this business, I could jus…

The rich kids used to want to be rockstars, now they all want to be entrepreneurs.

Back when work was work and we had festivals.

Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by reverius42 »

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.)

Does anybody seriously think that communication is something an LLM can do for you?

(Hint: if you have to prompt it to write an email -- you could have saved everyone some time and emailed the prompt instead.)

Re: Personal Computer by Perplexity

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Post by realityfactchex »

w4der wrote: post #55
realityfactchex wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still there. For Joe Shmoe, in terms of general purpose, ask it a question, LLM use, Perplexity is solidly in the following lineup, as I understand it: - Perplexity: This one has been promoted on (insert general audience media skewing toward the older set) enough to be a household name still. - ChatGPT: General people in some demographics (see immediately above) are averse to this, on account of negative publici…

Funny how you didn't even mention MS Copilot, which many of my friends who work for big corporations seem to have been forced to use at work, and as a consequence, also for personal use.

Oh yeah, that is funny. Thanks for adding it; I thought I was missing at least one major one!

- Copilot: Great at finding and discussing docs, conversations, and other work items that it is connected to. For everything else, it seems somehow less smart than the others (YMMV).

Emphasis on the YMMV, obviously. Maybe my impression is colored by a small number of unlucky, less than stellar experiences (comparatively speaking).

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