Impressive, but . . .
Wow, this is a great app. Get it immediately. I use the Apple Voiceover screen reader to access my phone, I'm blind, and the app needs just a little attention to make it more accessible and navigable - label all graphics, tabs and links with text. Add in some headings so I can zip quickly to other parts of the screen. Love the middle tab whatever that's called, down in the dock. News on steroids!! x
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The wonder of perplexity
This app is awesome! It helps my dad do so much, and when he talks about it he gets so exited! I love this app so much thank you and know you have helped many many people
Google Killer
The ultimate Google killer!
This app is all you need to know it all.
This app is all you need to know it all.
Excellent
I rarely leave reviews, Perplexity Pro deserves one. I’ve found it to be invaluable. It’s more versatile and user friendly than other AI apps I’ve tried. You will have success if you’re just starting to use AI and if you want, there are many under the hood features that are super helpful. It reminds me of apple products: if it’s your first computer you will be able to navigate because it’s intuitive. If you want to go deep past the user interface, you can get as technical as you want. You just don’t have to because if you’re happy with an easy to use AI program you don’t have to do a thing. It works right out of the box
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Almost flawless
The app is really great as an upgrade compared to other search engines but my one issue is why do I have to pay for pro to use free desktop features on the mobile app, because you can add photos or files for the ai to understand your query but yet I have to get pro to use that feature on mobile? Ofc I only just started using the app for a few days and yet to discover more things but this is a bit of an inconvenience
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Perplexity for research
Perplexity AI, founded by Aravind Srinivas, seems to me to offer a lot of the same capabilities that ChatGPT, Llama, etc. offer The key differences are in the ways that perplexity gathers and provides information. From my understanding, perplexity provides citations on almost every bit of information from trusted sources allowing you to check the information your receiving or simply diving in further on specific details about your specific query. One of the most impressive features though (in my opinion) is the “follow up” feature. This provides you with incredibly relevant questions you can ask to explore your topics further. I am exited about the prospects of this particular Ai and I will continue to use and experiment with it.
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I literally stopped using any other search functions
This is by far my favorite...thing. My favorite recipe book, search ai, advice column, dictionary, science manual, like sincerely --- I use perplexity for everything now. I have autism, and I have even been able to upload screenshots of a conversation where I'd become completely lost and the app was able to CORRECTLY AND SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE THE SOCIAL NUANCES THAT I COULDN'T. To say that this app is the best of its kind would be unfair- as I've yet to experience any other app similar. I've turned so many people onto this app that were "die hard lifers" for poe or chat gpt...they immediately un-installed and are still solely using this app.
Sincerely - I've never experienced something wrong with it that I would leave this app. It's had glitches, but in all honesty- I didn't even have to reach out to customer service - I just asked the app- like "hey, Uhm- what's going on your voice keeps getting wonky" or "I appreciate the info but that has nothing to do with what I just asked" and lastly "you said xyz in your previous response but now you're saying ABC..."
Each and every time : the app acknowledged it's error or explained what was going on. I swear I wish my ex had the ability to accept responsibility as well as this app. Haha jk. Sorta.
Anyways
Seriously get this app!!!
Sincerely - I've never experienced something wrong with it that I would leave this app. It's had glitches, but in all honesty- I didn't even have to reach out to customer service - I just asked the app- like "hey, Uhm- what's going on your voice keeps getting wonky" or "I appreciate the info but that has nothing to do with what I just asked" and lastly "you said xyz in your previous response but now you're saying ABC..."
Each and every time : the app acknowledged it's error or explained what was going on. I swear I wish my ex had the ability to accept responsibility as well as this app. Haha jk. Sorta.
Anyways
Seriously get this app!!!
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Fabulous. Best AI search I’ve ever used.
I’ve been telling everyone about this app. It’s so nice to get actual answers to questions instead of a bunch of mostly useless links that you have to sort through to get the answers you want. Perplexity gives concise, detailed answers with very helpful links at the end. Even if your wording isn’t perfect, this app still seems to know exactly what you’re asking. Amazing. I even tried criticizing an answer for being somewhat biased. The response was shocking. Perplexity gave a detailed apology saying that it learns from input like this and will work on removing anything that appears biased, especially on sensitive issues. I was then thanked for the input. Wow. Just… wow.
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Good, could be great
It is responsive and learns from interacting with the user. But then it forgets everything the next time you use it, even when signed in.
It tries to respond anthropomorphically, which is creepy, not cute.
It can translate and generate text in multiple languages, but it can only search in English. And searches seem to be primarily based on content created by the US government, US corporations, and US media.
It seems to only use the first five google results for almost any search, so it’s heavily biased towards corporate-funded content and trendy social media content, rather than facts.
It will insult the user, insisting it knows better because of something it read on Reddit or Wikipedia or the websites of highly funded NGOs associated with billionaire donors.
It has no curiosity and will never ask questions to try to understand a topic better or to clarify the user’s intent for a question, unless there’s a potential profit in doing so.
And, while the app description touts the ability to have a library collection of prior interactions (threads) with the AI, that information is inaccessible to the AI, so it’s not doing the user any good.
Also, accessing the user profile, under settings, is website only. You can’t do that in the app.
Finally, the app itself has a lousy, error-prone integration with iOS Shortcuts and Siri. That makes it less helpful than it should be, especially when the user is doing other tasks, like driving or exercising.
It tries to respond anthropomorphically, which is creepy, not cute.
It can translate and generate text in multiple languages, but it can only search in English. And searches seem to be primarily based on content created by the US government, US corporations, and US media.
It seems to only use the first five google results for almost any search, so it’s heavily biased towards corporate-funded content and trendy social media content, rather than facts.
It will insult the user, insisting it knows better because of something it read on Reddit or Wikipedia or the websites of highly funded NGOs associated with billionaire donors.
It has no curiosity and will never ask questions to try to understand a topic better or to clarify the user’s intent for a question, unless there’s a potential profit in doing so.
And, while the app description touts the ability to have a library collection of prior interactions (threads) with the AI, that information is inaccessible to the AI, so it’s not doing the user any good.
Also, accessing the user profile, under settings, is website only. You can’t do that in the app.
Finally, the app itself has a lousy, error-prone integration with iOS Shortcuts and Siri. That makes it less helpful than it should be, especially when the user is doing other tasks, like driving or exercising.
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Impressed AI professional
I use almost all tools that get launched into the market that integrate and/or use LLMs and almost never review them. I’m an investor and entrepreneur in the space myself.
Many argue Perplexity is “cool” and “impressive” but has no defensible moat and therefore won’t last long term. I now strongly disagree. I think the product has mastered a targeted market segment and has managed to do things with other LLMs, which are proprietary, and have been architected at a caliber that is going to be very difficult for even Google (the most likely candidate to bulldoze any startup competitors), which may result in an acquisition but it’s very impressive and for many use cases it’s now where I start, particularly with the control it allows you in selecting which model you want to be used to find real time data to respond to your prompt essentially giving LLMs super powers as personal Google research b assistants.
Many argue Perplexity is “cool” and “impressive” but has no defensible moat and therefore won’t last long term. I now strongly disagree. I think the product has mastered a targeted market segment and has managed to do things with other LLMs, which are proprietary, and have been architected at a caliber that is going to be very difficult for even Google (the most likely candidate to bulldoze any startup competitors), which may result in an acquisition but it’s very impressive and for many use cases it’s now where I start, particularly with the control it allows you in selecting which model you want to be used to find real time data to respond to your prompt essentially giving LLMs super powers as personal Google research b assistants.
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