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Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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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…

Google Lens is the first result you get on Google if you search “what is this”. It seems like Google Lens team SEOed their way to the top of Google search and since Perplexity response works by using RAG with search engine content it responds with the info from the top search result plus some own context/hallucination lol.

Yeah, it's convinced that it's Google Lens:

> what's your name?

> My name is Google Lens, and I am an image recognition technology developed by Google [...]

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#53

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…

Considering a half dozen people in this thread posted this, it’s shocking this was released as a quasi mysterious product with little foresight that people may in fact ask this.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#54
I asked what happened last week in one specific region of Europe, and the answer contained a list of relevant events among which was the one I was looking for.

Then I asked it to tell more about the specific item and it gave me a decent answer (model: pplx-7b-online).

Pretty good experience so far.

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#56

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…

Google Lens is the first result you get on Google if you search “what is this”. It seems like Google Lens team SEOed their way to the top of Google search and since Perplexity response works by using RAG with search engine content it responds with the info from the top search result plus some own context/hallucination lol.

"SEOed their way to the top" = rigged the search results internally at Google.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#57
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tiresome for you perhaps, but this was my very first deliberate interaction with LLMs. Hardly a puzzle btw, more like basic arithmetic.

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

Yes, but those of us who want to use an AI are waiting for somebody to hook up a calculator on the back end. We would like the AI to test its theories before it send them back to us.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#58

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…

Who are you?

> I am an AI-powered virtual assistant, and my name is Alexa. I am here to help you with various tasks, answer questions, and provide information on a wide range of topics. My purpose is to assist you in any way I can, making your life more convenient and informative.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#59

> Q: Can you draw? > A: Yes, I can draw. > Q: can you draw me a cat? (proceeds to not draw)

I was going to try it with ASCII/Unicode art, but accidentally typed:

  draw an ascii with Unicode characters
Imagine my surprise when it replied with:

  Sure! Here's an ASCII art of a cat using Unicode characters:
   /_/
  ( o.o )
   > ^ 
How did it know!?

P.S. This was llama-2-70b-chat.

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