Tag: Perplexity

Automatic generation of Wikipedia-like articles with Perplexity Pages

Oct 25, 2024

in AI

article, Perplexity, Perplexity Pages, personal learning, self-regulated learning, wikipedia

Perplexity Pages seems to work best with predetermined structures rather than single prompts. Unlike traditional AI tools, Pages allows you to customise sections, add media, and expand outlines intentionally. This hands-on experiment demonstrates how the platform differs from standard question-answer AI interactions.
Weekly digest 32

Aug 4, 2024

in Digest

AI literacy, Anthropic, Claude, creativity, geek, generative AI, guard rails, Perplexity, psychology

A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
Perplexity Pages

Jun 3, 2024

in AI, Note

Perplexity

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-pages Pages lets you effortlessly create, organize, and share information. Search any topic, and instantly receive a well-structured, beautifully formatted article. Publish your work to our growing library of user-generated content and share it directly with your audience with a single click. Perplexity Team (2024). Introducing Perplexity Pages.
Using Perplexity to find the source of a quote

Mar 24, 2024

in AI

accuracy, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, source

I just used Perplexity to solve a problem that was doing my head in. I wanted to find the source of a popular quote by an author named Shannon Hale. The problem is that the quote is reproduced on hundreds of sites, and all the sites I tried (using Google and DuckDuckGo) didn’t provide the…
AI features in the browser

Feb 12, 2024

in AI, Note

Arc, browser, chrome, internet, Mixtral, Perplexity

Just wanted to note a few developments around integrating AI into the browser, which makes a lot of sense. Just another data point in the process of integrating AI into everything.
Perplexity AI is a great service when accuracy is important

Jan 24, 2024

in AI

accuracy, Bard, Perplexity

I’ve been using Perplexity on and off for almost as long as it’s been available. I’ve always liked the way it provides sources for it’s responses, but lately it seems to be really good. Like, really good. The sources are almost always places I recognise and trust (when it’s a topic I know about) and…
I prefer the outputs of Claude, over other LLMs

Nov 10, 2023

in AI

Bard, chatbot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, language model, large language models, Perplexity

As I’ve been using LLMs more and more, I’ve found that I prefer the outputs generated by Claude, over any of the others. I still routinely compare the outputs of Claude to ChatGPT, Bard, and Perplexity), but in most cases, I up choosing the responses from Claude. In the case of Bard, I’m not impressed…
Use language models to explore a space of possibilities

Jul 24, 2023

in AI, Publication, Research

AI progress, AI regulation, ai safety, Anthropic, ChatGPT, Claude, comparison, large language model, medical education, Perplexity

Strong E, DiGiammarino A, Weng Y, et al. Chatbot vs Medical Student Performance on Free-Response Clinical Reasoning Examinations. JAMA Intern Med. Published online July 17, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2909 A popular chatbot is an interface for the generative pretrained transformer (GPT) large language model artificial intelligence (AI) system that generates humanlike text in response to user input.…
Weekly digest (17-23 Jul 2023)

Jul 23, 2023

in AI, Assessment, Digest, Education

AI literacy, artificual intelligence, assessment, ChatGPT, Claude, faculty development, faculty support, guideline, higher education, in beta, language model, large language model, learning, LLM, mobile app, Perplexity, Pi, podcast, policy, research, student support, university

It feels like there’s been a change in the general feeling towards AI in higher education, at least from my perspective. There’s a movement towards recognising that: I wouldn’t have thought we’d see such a quick change in direction, especially from higher education institutions, which typically take a long time to adapt. Granted, there are…
In Beta podcast on generative AI and assessment

Jul 17, 2023

in AI

assessment, Ben Ellis, ChatGPT, in beta, language model, large language model, learning, Perplexity, Pi, podcast, teaching

It’s been a long time since Ben and I sat down to record something for the In Beta podcast, but I think this episode on Generative AI is a good one. As usual, Ben asks some great questions that really push me to think about what I’m thinking. This was a wide-ranging conversation that explored…