Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents

Perplexity, an AI search biz, has launched Perplexity Labs, a project automation service capable of generating basic apps and digital assets on demand, with example workflows and project samples to help first-timers get started. Foundation models, including large language models (LLMs), take inputs, analyze them against a …

[TReko]

Mistakes as usual

> interactive map of the Pacific Theater during World War II

According to Perplexity, the British never fought or retook Burma during WW2

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Mistakes as usual

... it does now; the UK (green circles) loses Burma to Japan (red circles) in June 1942, and wins it back in September 1945. That Perplexity Labs project page (and those for the brown couch, and for reports on LLMs) did update themselves a few times during my viewing though, maybe they undergo a kind of continued "improvement" process.

At first sight at least, it is a tad impressive (could be useful to loners). The couple source links I checked (Library of Congress, the History Place, National Park Service) worked (not hallucinated).

[Spamfast]

Yet more Merkinization I see.

In the UK they're called "stabilizers" not "training wheels" - at least they were when I were a lad. (Flat caps, licking road clean wit' tougue etc, etc.)

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[Paul Hovnanian]

'In the UK they're called "stabilizers" not "training wheels"'

Getting a bit ahead of themselves. Nappies (diapers) for the AI first.

[Spamfast]

Surely if you fit them with nappies it'll block their output entirely?

Not that that is a bad thing per se.