#perplexity

[patheticperipatetic]

Firefox is experimenting with an Al something in search. You have to manually tell FF to use it, heres how to remove the option entirely:

☰ -> Settings -> 🔍 Search -> scroll down -> click Perplexity -> Remove

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Smith & Diction / Perplexity / Perplexity Labs / Typography / 2023

[odinsblog]

the accuracy

[scheduledlogansanders]

Logan meets the fusion sides: Perplexity! A fusion of Janus and Remus! Responsible for some rather Perplexing riddles and confusion!

[rhymingriddledprose]

*Someone is passing by*

*on the ceiling as per usual*

*head tilts as he watches them pass by. Who dis?*

[amlogansanders]

*bounce bounce bouncebouncebounce rolllllllllllll*

*Logan, if looking up from his work, can see a small neon green and yellow juggling ball with black stitching. It’s juuuuuuuust far enough to require Logan to stand up from his desk to get it.* *It wiggles a bit to get his attention*

— @twofacedsssssnake [Perplexity]

*Logan continues working only glancing at the ball in his office for a second. It's weird but not important enough to dwell on when he still needs at least 200 more words in this document. He throws another glance? This time at his desk clock. How long has he been working anyway? 10? 15 hours? He sighs running a hand down his face. Oh god this is going to take all night again*

[cinnamonmagick]

Sources: Wikimedia announcement│Reuters│CNBC

Associated Press interview:

While AI training has sparked legal battles elsewhere over copyright and other issues, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he welcomes it. “I’m very happy personally that AI models are training on Wikipedia data because it’s human curated,” Wales told The Associated Press in an interview. “I wouldn’t really want to use an AI that’s trained only on X, you know, like a very angry AI,” Wales said, referring to billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform.

The Wikimedia Foundation has outlined an AI strategy that Wales said could result in tools that reduce tedious work for editors. While AI isn’t good enough to write Wikipedia entries from scratch, it could, for example, be used to update dead links by scanning the surrounding text and then searching online to find other sources. “We don’t have that yet but that’s the kind of thing that I think we will see in the future.” Artificial intelligence could also improve the Wikipedia search experience, by evolving from the traditional keyword method to more of a chatbot style, Wales said. “You can imagine a world where you can ask the Wikipedia search box a question and it will quote to you from Wikipedia,” he said. It could respond by saying “here’s the answer to your question from this article and here’s the actual paragraph. That sounds really useful to me and so I think we’ll move in that direction as well. ”

Wales say he’s known Musk for years but they haven’t been in touch since Grokipedia launched. “I should probably ping him,” Wales said. What would he say? “‘How’s your family?’ I’m a nice person, I don’t really want to pick a fight with anybody.”

They also paused an attempt to implement AI-generated summaries last year after their volunteer editors protested: 404 Media│Vice

[thepersonalwords]

Discomfort: the valley between the body and the soul. Comfort: the bridge between the body and the soul

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah