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Aravind Srinivas

What Aravind Srinivas thinks about chat interfaces

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  1. Our readingPrompt engineering is not a durable skill, because a good product is one that works for the user who never learned to phrase a question.

    Their wordsAnd also this is where I believe the whole prompt engineering, trying to be a good prompt engineer is not going to be a long-term thing. I think you want to make products work where a user doesn’t even ask for something, but you know that they want it and you give it to them without them even asking for it.

    ↗Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434youtube.com 4th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe way to stop a chatbot inventing things is to forbid it from saying anything it did not retrieve, not merely to hand it extra context.

    Their wordsThe principle in Perplexity is you’re not supposed to say anything that you don’t retrieve, which is even more powerful than RAG because RAG just says, “Okay, use this additional context and write an answer.” But we say, “Don’t use anything more than that too.” That way we ensure a factual grounding.

    ↗Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434youtube.com 13th of 20 in this recording