No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
发布时间 2023-04-25 16:18:28 来源
摘要
With advances in machine learning, the way we search for information online will never be the same.
This week on the No Priors podcast, we dive into a startup that aims to be the most trustworthy place to search for information online. Perplexity.ai is a search engine that provides answers to questions in a conversational way and hints at what the future of search might look like.
Aravind Srinivas is a Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity. He is a former research scientist at Open AI and completed his PhD in computer science at University of California Berkeley.
Denis Yarats is a Co-Founder and Perplexity’s CTO. He has a background in machine learning, having worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research and a machine learning engineer at Quora.
00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - How Perplexity AI iterates quickly and how the company has changed over time
05:46 - Approach to hiring and building a fast-paced team
10:43 - Why you don’t need AI pedigree to transition to work or research AI
14:01 - Challenges when transitioning from AI research to running a company as CEO & CTO
16:50 - Why Perplexity only shows answers it can cite
19:33 - How Perplexity approaches reinforcement learning
20:49 - Trustworthiness and if an answer engine needs a personality
23:05 - Why answer engines will become their own market segment
26:38 - Implications of “the era of fewer clicks” on publishers and advertisers
30:20 - Monetization strategy
33:20 - Advice for those deciding between academia or startups
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