Aravind Srinivas
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It's a very simple statement, but pretty profound in how much it forces you to say things that are only right. And we took this principle and asked ourselves, what is the best way to make chatbots accurate? Is force it to only say things that it can find on internet, right? And find from multiple sources. This kind of came out of a need rather than, oh, let's try this idea.
It's a very simple statement, but pretty profound in how much it forces you to say things that are only right. And we took this principle and asked ourselves, what is the best way to make chatbots accurate? Is force it to only say things that it can find on internet, right? And find from multiple sources. This kind of came out of a need rather than, oh, let's try this idea.
It's a very simple statement, but pretty profound in how much it forces you to say things that are only right. And we took this principle and asked ourselves, what is the best way to make chatbots accurate? Is force it to only say things that it can find on internet, right? And find from multiple sources. This kind of came out of a need rather than, oh, let's try this idea.
When we started the startup, there were like so many questions all of us had because we were complete noobs, never built a product before, never built like a startup before. Of course we had worked on like a lot of cool engineering and research problems, but doing something from scratch is the ultimate test. And there were like lots of questions.
When we started the startup, there were like so many questions all of us had because we were complete noobs, never built a product before, never built like a startup before. Of course we had worked on like a lot of cool engineering and research problems, but doing something from scratch is the ultimate test. And there were like lots of questions.
When we started the startup, there were like so many questions all of us had because we were complete noobs, never built a product before, never built like a startup before. Of course we had worked on like a lot of cool engineering and research problems, but doing something from scratch is the ultimate test. And there were like lots of questions.
You know, what is the health insurance, like the first employee we hired, he came and asked us for health insurance. Normal need. I didn't care. I was like, why do I need a health insurance if this company dies? Like, who cares? My other two co-founders had, were married, so they had health insurance to their spouses. But this guy was like looking for health insurance.
You know, what is the health insurance, like the first employee we hired, he came and asked us for health insurance. Normal need. I didn't care. I was like, why do I need a health insurance if this company dies? Like, who cares? My other two co-founders had, were married, so they had health insurance to their spouses. But this guy was like looking for health insurance.
You know, what is the health insurance, like the first employee we hired, he came and asked us for health insurance. Normal need. I didn't care. I was like, why do I need a health insurance if this company dies? Like, who cares? My other two co-founders had, were married, so they had health insurance to their spouses. But this guy was like looking for health insurance.
And I didn't even know anything. Who are the providers? What is co-insurance or deductible? Or like, none of these made any sense to me. And you go to Google, insurance is a category where, like a major ad spend category. So even if you ask for something, Google has no incentive to give you clear answers.
And I didn't even know anything. Who are the providers? What is co-insurance or deductible? Or like, none of these made any sense to me. And you go to Google, insurance is a category where, like a major ad spend category. So even if you ask for something, Google has no incentive to give you clear answers.
And I didn't even know anything. Who are the providers? What is co-insurance or deductible? Or like, none of these made any sense to me. And you go to Google, insurance is a category where, like a major ad spend category. So even if you ask for something, Google has no incentive to give you clear answers.
They want you to click on all these links and read for yourself because all these insurance providers are bidding to get your attention. So we integrated a Slack bot that just pings GPT 3.5 and answered a question. Now, sounds like problem solved, except we didn't even know whether what it said was correct or not. And in fact, we're saying incorrect things.
They want you to click on all these links and read for yourself because all these insurance providers are bidding to get your attention. So we integrated a Slack bot that just pings GPT 3.5 and answered a question. Now, sounds like problem solved, except we didn't even know whether what it said was correct or not. And in fact, we're saying incorrect things.
They want you to click on all these links and read for yourself because all these insurance providers are bidding to get your attention. So we integrated a Slack bot that just pings GPT 3.5 and answered a question. Now, sounds like problem solved, except we didn't even know whether what it said was correct or not. And in fact, we're saying incorrect things.
And we were like, okay, how do we address this problem? And we remembered our academic roots. Dennis and myself are both academics. Dennis is my co-founder. And we said, okay, what is one way we stop ourselves from saying nonsense in a peer review paper? We're always making sure we can cite what it says, what we write, every sentence. Now, what if we ask the chatbot to do that?
And we were like, okay, how do we address this problem? And we remembered our academic roots. Dennis and myself are both academics. Dennis is my co-founder. And we said, okay, what is one way we stop ourselves from saying nonsense in a peer review paper? We're always making sure we can cite what it says, what we write, every sentence. Now, what if we ask the chatbot to do that?
And we were like, okay, how do we address this problem? And we remembered our academic roots. Dennis and myself are both academics. Dennis is my co-founder. And we said, okay, what is one way we stop ourselves from saying nonsense in a peer review paper? We're always making sure we can cite what it says, what we write, every sentence. Now, what if we ask the chatbot to do that?
And then we realized that's literally how Wikipedia works. In Wikipedia, if you do a random edit, people expect you to actually have a source for that. Not just any random source, they expect you to make sure that the source is notable You know, there are so many standards for like what counts as notable and not. So we decided this is worth working on.
And then we realized that's literally how Wikipedia works. In Wikipedia, if you do a random edit, people expect you to actually have a source for that. Not just any random source, they expect you to make sure that the source is notable You know, there are so many standards for like what counts as notable and not. So we decided this is worth working on.