I’m surprised Perplexity isn’t already dead! Makes me question my ability to evaluate the value/sticking power of these tools.
(Unless it is dead if we could see DAUs…)
(Unless it is dead if we could see DAUs…)
My most recent experiment:
How many Google CEOs there have been?
Followed by the question
So 3 CEOs for 27 years. How does that number compare to other companies of this size
ChatGPT just completely hallucinates the answer -- 5 Microsoft CEOs over 50 years, 3 Amazon CEOs over 30 years, 2 Meta CEOs over 20 years which are just obviously wrong. You don't need to do a search to know these numbers -- they are definitely in the training dataset (barring the small possibility that there has been a CEO change in the past year in any of these companies, which apparently did not happen)
But Perplexity completely nailed it on first attempt without any additional instructions.
Yeah sure ChatGPT can spam a bunch of search queries through their search tool but it doesn't really come close to having Perplexity's search graph and index. Their sonar model is also specifically built for search