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Aravind Srinivas

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

Yeah, you just want to go to Kayak. We just want to go fill up a form. You want to go pay your credit card dues.

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

Yeah, you just want to go to Kayak. We just want to go fill up a form. You want to go pay your credit card dues.

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

Yeah, you just want to go to Kayak. We just want to go fill up a form. You want to go pay your credit card dues.

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

Exactly, because that's not just about throwing an LLM. When you're asking, oh, what dress should I wear out today in Austin? You don't want to get the weather across the time of the day, even though you didn't ask for it. And then Google presents this information in like cool widgets. And I think that is where this is a very different problem from just building another chatbot.

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

Exactly, because that's not just about throwing an LLM. When you're asking, oh, what dress should I wear out today in Austin? You don't want to get the weather across the time of the day, even though you didn't ask for it. And then Google presents this information in like cool widgets. And I think that is where this is a very different problem from just building another chatbot.

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

Exactly, because that's not just about throwing an LLM. When you're asking, oh, what dress should I wear out today in Austin? You don't want to get the weather across the time of the day, even though you didn't ask for it. And then Google presents this information in like cool widgets. And I think that is where this is a very different problem from just building another chatbot.

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

And the information needs to be presented well. And the user intent, like for example, if you ask for a stock price, you might even be interested in looking at the historic stock price, even though you never asked for it. You might be interested in today's price. These are the kind of things that like, You have to build as custom UIs for every query. And why I think this is a hard problem.

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

And the information needs to be presented well. And the user intent, like for example, if you ask for a stock price, you might even be interested in looking at the historic stock price, even though you never asked for it. You might be interested in today's price. These are the kind of things that like, You have to build as custom UIs for every query. And why I think this is a hard problem.

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

And the information needs to be presented well. And the user intent, like for example, if you ask for a stock price, you might even be interested in looking at the historic stock price, even though you never asked for it. You might be interested in today's price. These are the kind of things that like, You have to build as custom UIs for every query. And why I think this is a hard problem.

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

It's not just like the next generation model will solve the previous generation model's problems here. The next generation model will be smarter. You can do these amazing things like planning, like query, breaking it down to pieces, collecting information, aggregating from sources, using different tools, those kinds of things you can do.

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

It's not just like the next generation model will solve the previous generation model's problems here. The next generation model will be smarter. You can do these amazing things like planning, like query, breaking it down to pieces, collecting information, aggregating from sources, using different tools, those kinds of things you can do.

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

It's not just like the next generation model will solve the previous generation model's problems here. The next generation model will be smarter. You can do these amazing things like planning, like query, breaking it down to pieces, collecting information, aggregating from sources, using different tools, those kinds of things you can do.

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

You can keep answering harder and harder queries, but there's still a lot of work to do on the product layer in terms of how the information is best presented to the user and how you think backwards from what the user really wanted and might want as a next step and give it to them before they even ask for it.

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

You can keep answering harder and harder queries, but there's still a lot of work to do on the product layer in terms of how the information is best presented to the user and how you think backwards from what the user really wanted and might want as a next step and give it to them before they even ask for it.

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

You can keep answering harder and harder queries, but there's still a lot of work to do on the product layer in terms of how the information is best presented to the user and how you think backwards from what the user really wanted and might want as a next step and give it to them before they even ask for it.

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

Yeah, exactly. But you would like the product. When you ask for weather, let's say it localizes you to Austin automatically and not just tell you it's hot, not just tell you it's humid, but also tells you what to wear. You wouldn't ask for what to wear, but it would be amazing if the product came and told you what to wear.

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

Yeah, exactly. But you would like the product. When you ask for weather, let's say it localizes you to Austin automatically and not just tell you it's hot, not just tell you it's humid, but also tells you what to wear. You wouldn't ask for what to wear, but it would be amazing if the product came and told you what to wear.

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

Yeah, exactly. But you would like the product. When you ask for weather, let's say it localizes you to Austin automatically and not just tell you it's hot, not just tell you it's humid, but also tells you what to wear. You wouldn't ask for what to wear, but it would be amazing if the product came and told you what to wear.

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

I mean, but personalization, there's an 80-20 here. The 80-20 is achieved with your location, let's say your gender, and then you know, like sites you typically go to, like a rough sense of topics of what you're interested in, all that can already give you a great personalized experience.

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

I mean, but personalization, there's an 80-20 here. The 80-20 is achieved with your location, let's say your gender, and then you know, like sites you typically go to, like a rough sense of topics of what you're interested in, all that can already give you a great personalized experience.