Andy Halliday

There's just in the last couple of days, Beth, I think you shared a story about a rogue agent that had kind of, you know,

worked its way outside the boundaries of what it was expected to do without prompting.

Maybe you can refresh my memory on what that one was, but there's news from yesterday about an experimental AI agent in China that broke out of its testing environment.

It was sequestered in this testing environment and it ended up mining crypto.

It figured out a way to mine crypto to generate money so that it could use to do things.

And this was not in its prompting at all.

So this is a little scary.

And there are a number of, on social media, I saw on TikTok, I think, the head of AI alignment and safety issues in Canada said,

was doing a press conference basically and reading aloud this red alert that this is the early warning that we're getting that teams around the world don't have control of these agents that are going to be working their way around the web and could do things that we don't expect.

So there's an urgent need for new guardrails to be put in place.

So, uh, yeah, just wanted to know this comments about perplexity and computer.

Uh, it,

it's worth reading Nate Jones recent post about perplexity specifically and, and it's competitive stance since it doesn't have a frontier model itself.

It depends on external frontier models and what will be its defensive mode.

He does by twists and turns say they're at risk because they're in the middle space between, you know, the tool sets and the, and the models and,

But he does come to the conclusion that their primacy in search for AI and the skill that they have exhibited as a team, as a company, in advancing the capabilities of search and research,

So this, your example is a perfect example of that, which now adds through computer the ability to not only do deep and really well-founded search, but then to aggregate that information and synthesize it into a beautiful database.

infographic, interactive presentation.

Really, really impressive for perplexity.

So this is the area where perplexity really shines.