Subject: Way, way OT: perplexity.ai
https://www.perplexity.ai

Anyone else tried this site?

It's a large language model site that answers any question. So, search engine, not chatbot.

Why mention it? Unlike other models to date like what you usually see from ChatGPT, some differences:
* Information is up to date. They pull news feeds all the time.
* They pay the sources from whom they are pulling fresh data a cut from their own ad revenue. That's both nice, and a good way to have lots of partners on board with high-trust data. Early adopters include Time, Fortune, Der Spiegel etc.
* The results are relatively hallucination free: almost every sentence ends with one or more citation links so you can check the data source yourself.

I have found it surprisingly useful, so I just thought I'd pass it on.
And, oddly enough, clicking through to the citations has led me to some interesting sites I've saved for future use.

There is a free level and a Pro level, as you might expect.
It uses multiple LLMs. "GPT-4, Claude 3.5, Mistral Large, and others", some in Pro version only like Sonar Large 32k, reputedly known for its accuracy and conciseness. So, not like me.

I'm sure there are other projects making good progress on the accuracy problem, but this seems like a good step.
Everybody likes the answers from bots, except that bit about the answers being scarily wrong sometimes.

Jim