A new search tool was released at the end of last year and could “challenge” the Google empire. THEM Perplexity Ask is a search interface using GPT 3.5 and answers questions more accurately, even when talking to users.
For those who don’t know, GPT 3.5 is one of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence platforms. It produces text with more contextual answers, similar to what a human would say when asked about something.
The model bore fruit, as did an enhanced version of GPT 3.5 and ChatGPT, one of the most popular artificial intelligence tools today.
Announcement of Perplexity Ask, a new search interface that uses OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing to directly answer any question you ask.https://t.co/FRNkFsnMrmhttps://t.co/R4G21AmwQ7 pic.twitter.com/iKRMUWgzob
— Confusion AI (@perplexity_ai) December 7, 2022
The creators of Perplexity explained that the system also uses Microsoft Bing to search for answers. Although much less used than rival Google, Bing offers several possibilities.
In addition to millions and millions of internet results, Bing can search for files, conversations, documents and many other information found on a user’s computer or Drive. However, none of these features are available in Perplexity (for now).
make questions
For example, “When was Brazil discovered and when did it declare independence?” in just a few seconds the site returns with an answer from multiple sources for both questions.
As a result, the tool shows that it removed the phrase from sources such as São Paulo Legislative Assembly pages and Wikipedia. Check out the result below:
And although the previous question was answered in English, Confused also shows responses in other languages. For example, the search engine “What was the size of Brazil’s population in 1977?” when he questions it, he answers in plain Portuguese, “The Brazilian demographic census in 1977 showed the Brazilian population at that time was 113,939,886 people.”
On the homepage, the site offers examples of popular questions asked. One of them is “What makes a man’s face attractive?” In the full response, the website says:
“Studies show that a combination of mature and neotenous traits [retenção de características da fase jovem na fase adulta] It is the most desirable setting for male faces. This includes a large lower jaw, high cheekbones, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a small nose.”
He even searches on Twitter
It’s not just searches on websites about real questions that Perplexity reveals. The platform continues to search for terms, conversations and information found on Twitter. — despite the fact that the social network has an internal search engine.
Using a search interface called “BirdSQL,” the search engine can search for specific posts that even mention emojis.
You can write terms like “Tweets about Elon Musk”. [emoji de foguete]”. The answer lists a series of posts where the billionaire used the rocket image.
However, Perplexity’s developers caution that all data from Twitter is “public information”. So public tweets, users, followers and likes”.
updates and future
The amazement keeps getting additions and new stuff features this promises to make the search engine even more complete. Last Thursday (19), the platform received the world’s first conversational search engine, according to the developers.
“You can now read the answers in current sources and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. In other words, you can talk to your search engine,” said the site’s creators.
Announcing a big update for Perplexity Ask: the world’s first conversational search engine! You can now read answers in up-to-date sources and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. In other words, you can chat with your search engine!
Try it at https://t.co/ut3wdOxstL pic.twitter.com/rQCyeJhzto— Confusion AI (@perplexity_ai) 19 January 2023
Another addition to the system is a great database selection. The system can provide search results in any type of graph from simple parameters. The results can still be converted into Ploty libraries supplied in languages such as Python and Javascript. Beware of Google.
You can search on databases with Perplexity. But also do more!
Visualize and summarize results as aggregated statistics, graphs
Everyone analyzes data from natural language.
No prerequisite knowledge of SQL or drawing libraries is required.
Link: https://t.co/N1BtF4pTcC pic.twitter.com/hxlts491oZ
— Confusion AI (@perplexity_ai) 20 December 2022
Despite comparisons and jokes, Google is still a giant that will take time to overcome. The site was viewed 92.8 billion times in 2022, ranking second on YouTube (with 76.5 billion). Users around the world process more than 8 billion searches per day.
Alphabet’s flagship product has a market dominance of 91.9%, with Bing in second place (only 2.8%). All these numbers mean that the platform is approaching its 25th year of existence (to be completed on September 4).
Source: Tec Mundo
