Perplexity - Ask Anything 12+

Going back to a search engine feels antiquated. and the results here are usually much higher quality. plus I can bypass the dumb algorithms and censorship on google and wikipedia. I mean who isnt sick to death of useless, overly seo-optimized sites cluttering your search results? (I'm looking at you healthline, webmd, mayoclinic, clevelandclinic). occasionally an ai generated site slips into the results though, so check the sources. when you use a search engine, you ask yourself a question, write a search friendly query and start going down the rabbit hole depending on the depth of your query. well perplexity explores all the rabbit holes at once, and practically writes you a wiki page on the fly with all sources. amazing. then you ask a followup, and boom another wiki page with sources. easily the best and fastest way to explore a topic quickly and thoroughly. thank you perplexity for whacking at goog, wiki, and bull-**** SEO. if I could request one thing its this - there are people on X who I would call "aggregators" they thoroughly understand a topic and have good information linked in their messages. if you could tap into that human curation, that would be excellent.

I am so impressed with Perplexity. Info junkie here. Truly, I ask "anything" several times a day. I ALWAYS get a helpful answer that often sends me down another rabbit hole, but frequently I get just what I need in a couple of seconds. Just a bit ago, Perplexity found me a highly recommended specialist in my area who takes my medical insurance (something I couldn't make work on the insurer's site or Google), and how to cancel an auto-paid secondary app account without also killing off the primary account that has 10 years of data in it, which the app itself didn't explain. I ask for recipes, historical info, geography, science, how-to tips, anything I'm wondering about, like "How is the shell of an egg formed?," which led me to how chicken coops work (it's more interesting than you think). Very conversational, too: If I say thank you, it not only says you're welcome, it continues, "Now let's see …" and sends me deeper into the subject. I like that!

The reason I'm giving Perplexity only 4/5 is that it's said to have some security vulnerabilities the company has not announced it's trying to fix. I love the app so much, I'm using it anyway, but being careful what I reveal about me and my data and interests. Same goes for Google, Facebook, etc. These days you just can't get away from the hacker syndrome, but we have to count on app providers to at least make an effort. Other than that, solid 5/5.

I never ever ever ever ever thought I would say “goodbye Google” I’m not affiliated with Perplexity, but I wish I was. This company has built a product that, even as a AI researcher, made my jaw drop. This thing can understand images. Let me tell you. I was doing trivia some really hard math trivia which I I could not for the life of me figure out. I decided to try perplexitys capabilities and well it to my surprise, recognized every single number on the paper correctly, as well as computed the math flawlessly. For the next hour, I couldn’t stop trying subject after subject of trivia, seeing if anything to trick it, and really the only thing that I found that could check it was my Chihuahua. It knew that the picture of the small weird looking dog was a Chihuahua but it told me it wasn’t sure if it was an Applehead or Deerhead. Hint: it’s an Applehead. You can literally take a picture of a hand written, love letter, a hand, written, love letter, and I even tried my, a mushroom growing and it will tell you everything you want to know. It’s three in the morning and perplexity AI should be banned because it’s kept me up this late playing with it.