Srinivas: Perplexity grounds even conversational identity queries in web search
Aravind Srinivas · No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats · Apr 25, 2023 · at 17:16
Aravind Srinivas is co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI. He explains the company's strict architectural approach to factual citations versus standard LLM chatbot behavior.
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“In fact, it's more like a citation first service that it'll never say anything that it cannot say. So if you, if people have tried to play with it as if it's like chat GPT where like, tell me who are you or like things like that. And even for those questions, it will still go to a search engine, pull up stuff and come back with an answer. It's not going to say I'm perplexity. I'm like a bot design. How are you doing? Or something like that.”
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