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Aravind Srinivas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1873 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

And it's not just a problem that will be solved by a smarter model because there's so many other things to do on the search layer and the sources layer and making sure like how well the answer is formatted and presented to the user. So that's why the product exists.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

And it's not just a problem that will be solved by a smarter model because there's so many other things to do on the search layer and the sources layer and making sure like how well the answer is formatted and presented to the user. So that's why the product exists.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

And it's not just a problem that will be solved by a smarter model because there's so many other things to do on the search layer and the sources layer and making sure like how well the answer is formatted and presented to the user. So that's why the product exists.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

I think of perplexity as a knowledge discovery engine, neither a search engine. I mean, of course we call it an answer engine, but everything matters here. The journey doesn't end once you get an answer. In my opinion, the journey begins after you get an answer. You see related questions at the bottom, suggested questions to ask. Why?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

I think of perplexity as a knowledge discovery engine, neither a search engine. I mean, of course we call it an answer engine, but everything matters here. The journey doesn't end once you get an answer. In my opinion, the journey begins after you get an answer. You see related questions at the bottom, suggested questions to ask. Why?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

I think of perplexity as a knowledge discovery engine, neither a search engine. I mean, of course we call it an answer engine, but everything matters here. The journey doesn't end once you get an answer. In my opinion, the journey begins after you get an answer. You see related questions at the bottom, suggested questions to ask. Why?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Because maybe the answer was not good enough or the answer was good enough, but you probably want to dig deeper and ask more. And that's why in the search bar, we say where knowledge begins, because there's no end to knowledge. You can only expand and grow. Like that's the whole concept of the beginning of infinity book by David Dosh. You always seek new knowledge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Because maybe the answer was not good enough or the answer was good enough, but you probably want to dig deeper and ask more. And that's why in the search bar, we say where knowledge begins, because there's no end to knowledge. You can only expand and grow. Like that's the whole concept of the beginning of infinity book by David Dosh. You always seek new knowledge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Because maybe the answer was not good enough or the answer was good enough, but you probably want to dig deeper and ask more. And that's why in the search bar, we say where knowledge begins, because there's no end to knowledge. You can only expand and grow. Like that's the whole concept of the beginning of infinity book by David Dosh. You always seek new knowledge.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

So I see this as sort of a discovery process. You start, you know, let's say you literally, whatever you asked me to right now, you could have asked perplexity too. Hey, perplexity, is it a search engine or is it an answer engine or what is it? And then like, you see some questions at the bottom, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

So I see this as sort of a discovery process. You start, you know, let's say you literally, whatever you asked me to right now, you could have asked perplexity too. Hey, perplexity, is it a search engine or is it an answer engine or what is it? And then like, you see some questions at the bottom, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

So I see this as sort of a discovery process. You start, you know, let's say you literally, whatever you asked me to right now, you could have asked perplexity too. Hey, perplexity, is it a search engine or is it an answer engine or what is it? And then like, you see some questions at the bottom, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

I don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

I don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

I don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

And look at the bottom, right? Right. So you were not intending to ask those questions, but they're relevant. Like, can Perplexity replace Google?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

And look at the bottom, right? Right. So you were not intending to ask those questions, but they're relevant. Like, can Perplexity replace Google?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

And look at the bottom, right? Right. So you were not intending to ask those questions, but they're relevant. Like, can Perplexity replace Google?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Exactly, so that's what David Dodge says in his book, which is creation of new knowledge starts from the spark of curiosity, to seek explanations, and then you find new phenomenon, or you get more depth in whatever knowledge you already have.