Perplexity: AI With a Focus on Citations

Following on from my article on AI hallucinations, I thought it was worth mentioning a product called Perplexity, which is specifically oriented towards accuracy and citations.

I’ve been using Perplexity for 6 months now and have found it really useful.

I gave it a query I had previously asked ChatGPT, where I was disappointed with the result because it required me to do more fact-checking than normal. In fact, I ended up reading most of an 80-page PDF to ensure I wasn't getting a bum steer. The result from Perplexity, however, was definitely more useful. I had a sense that some checking and rechecking had gone on behind the scenes before it provided the answer.

And you can see from the transcript how many citations were provided. I followed each of these and found that the references also seemed to have been provided from higher-quality sites. 

It's also got this nifty feature where you can share a link to the result for other people. Here's the link for my iCare query, so you can take a look yourself.

Here is the blurb it provides on signup:

Andrew Walker
Technology consulting for charities
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-walker-the-impatient-futurist/

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