Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. Transcript: lexfridman.com/aravind-srinivas-transcript 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - Cloaked: cloaked.com/lex and use code LexPod to get 25% off - ShipStation: shipstation.com/lex and use code LEX to get 60-day free trial - NetSuite: netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour - LMNT: drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack - Shopify: shopify.com/lex to get $1 per month trial - BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off 1:53 - How Perplexity works 9:50 - How Google works 32:17 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin 46:52 - Jeff Bezos 50:20 - Elon Musk 52:38 - Jensen Huang 55:55 - Mark Zuckerberg 57:23 - Yann LeCun 1:04:09 - Breakthroughs in AI 1:20:07 - Curiosity 1:26:24 - $1 trillion dollar question 1:41:14 - Perplexity origin story 1:56:27 - RAG 2:18:45 - 1 million H100 GPUs 2:21:17 - Advice for startups 2:33:54 - Future of search 2:51:31 - Future of AI
Listen to this guy! I'm 40, married, with three children and decided to go back to school only a couple years ago. I graduate next spring but it has generally been a very stressful and difficult uphill climb. Don't wait until you're older to pursue your dreams. Those if you in your 20s and are reading this, pursue your dreams while you are young, have no responsibilities (mortgage, family, etc.), and while your energy is at its peak. Don't procrastinate, don't put it off, and never prioritize pleasure over purpose. Also, like he said, your friends will make or break you. Be careful who you run with- don't let others discourage you or talk you out of something you really want to do. Arvind is an inspiration to us all!
Energy levels do reduce in your 40s. You definitely have reduced intellectual stamina I find. That being said you can still learn stuff. But not as well as you can in your teens and twenties.
Very grounded, very wise, very intelligent, quite technical, lots of GK and minimum self promotion... Not many guest boast that sort of combination, even the big hitters! Wish Aravind loads of luck!
Aravind is a great guest!! AI is just ridiculous at this point... so many amazing things it can do.. Chat GPT, Synesthesia, Lemon AI, etc.... it's just ridiculous
Congratulations Mr. Srinivas. You built something truly of value and improved speed of learning for billions of people worldwide. Hats off and bravo to you.
Being an initial user of Quora, I feel like they could have gotten here way before Perplexity, but didn't. Aravind's vision seems very aligned with what Quora back in the day was like without an AI, you search and it would give you a summary and the top n relevant answers based on statistical ranking of an answer by other humans. It also had related questions which were asked.
@Aravind Srinivas thank you for Perplexity. i just downloaded the app and it is a breath of fresh air to receive a direct answer and a relevant path to pursue for further information
The clarity and simplicity with which Arvind speaks, tells a lot about how determined he is to achieve his goal rather than only playing with consumers and money, like some of the biggest tech leaders Sa....
I have been using perplexity for sometime. It really has really bought in some intense competition in a complacent market place. The winner is the consumer.
I never listened to Aravind before but your words hit hard and very relatable on so many level . Great advice for people like us who are trying to find a light at the end of tunnel! Well done podcast.
The depth and technical knowledge he has over AI and Machine Learning is almost superhuman. He's probably going to be the next Elon or Sergey. What a prodigy! One of the best podcast I have listened to in a long time. I had to stop and search every 10-15 seconds, and came back smarter. It's easily one of the densest podcast with so much knowledge compressed. Love it 👏
I love the way Aravind established his business purpose here … evident from the use of word ‘Knowledge’, ‘learn’ which ties to the objective of their business … #inspiring
I subscribed to the Pro version. And have basically never used Google to search for anything again. If only the average human knew how this tool could benefit them.
@@shwetagk5362 I think it’s an adoption problem. If people could magically use it for a week, they might get it and see that it might work well for them. Especially when searching on your phone for answers to literally anything
insightful and thought provoking podcast! I stopped at relevance of query against raw data collected from Oracle Forums. After listening to him, I really want to get back to my pet project from last year.
Really enjoying this talk! I appreciate people like this individual who are so generous in providing us with insight as to the meticulous work required to get to clean AGI. It is also refreshing to not hear things of a NSFW nature in these talks. There is something uncomfortably wrong about judging someone based on their dipping into subject matter that is best left for us to privately deal with and analyze for improvement towards the good.
Can't wait to listen! Perplexity is my favorite tool at the moment. It's a huge time saver & seems like a whole new landscape opened up in front of me!
I would like to say that I find your podcast and your voice quite calming, almost soothing. By the way, the only starburst I buy is that one, the new can brew coffee, vanilla flavor is my go to cold brew can coffee beverage.
Wishes for guests: (1) an economists talking about the future of AI,human labor and UBI ; (2) an AI researcher talking about datasets, censorship and how it affects the skills of a model (and could something similar be true for humans and societies?)
@@hayekianman With your question formulated like that (and by that I mean "passive-aggressively"), I don't think you want a discussion, but here's a definition and maybe you can find your own answer: economics - the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and >>>transfer of wealth
"I don't know" is even hard for humans to say....,. So far I really like Perplexity - I didn't even know everything was vetted by literature references - that explains certain aspects..... very cool.
I hope that you do a podcast with Linus Tech Tips. His experience in RU-vid and Tech hardware will be interesting with your expertise in interesting questions
Fell asleep before this came on, no joke had a dream about how advanced AI will be in just a couple years. World panic. Woke up and re-watched this!! Amazing podcast
Here's my take on speed, sure response latency is slower, but perplexity it's actually quicker, you spend less time looking through junk and clicking on links.
Guy with a clear genius complex. These tech startup types will do the most basic engineering, rack up vc capital, and call themselves revolutionary. Damn aravavindi, bravo
There are tons of services like Perplexity. Their latest update which converts ai summaries of SERP results (this is what they do basically) to AI articles, hosted on their website. This shows a deadend in innovation and is basically a parasite SEO strategy. The CEO is super active recently with interviews which is a sign the business growth flattened and saturated, and they are preparing for the next investment round. Good luck fighting Google and Bing on their ground with a model practically owned by Microsoft
The guy has answered the questions in a pretty straightforward way. Plus he's not just an engineering graduate like you've implied, he has a doctorate. You seem to form your opinions based on a lot of preconceived notions and preexisting biases.
Great insights! Many diseases can in fact be cured with the current technologies. Pharm companies just didn't have the incentive to develop treatments for them because the target audience is too small. If AI could do drug designs cheap, it can incentivize smaller companies to develop treatments to improve lives with really small costs to conquer these really small markets.
31:37 as a 10+ SEM/SEO Expert that have worked at google i must said that this is a really interesting conversation. Some things can be debatible but still its a good starting point into SEO/SEM
fascinating conversation - given the hard dependency on retrieved context for generating responses, Id be curious to understand how Perplexity sources this data. Google is obviously the best "sourcer" as discussed many times in this podcast - is there something novel you guys are doing that goes beyond complex google search queries for building high quality context?
This is the first time I've seen someone plough over Lex Fridman's questions like it's nothing, there was a cool part in the middle, but I didn't get the sense of how Lex Fridman asks deep questions
I was off put initially, there was just too many ill delivered analogies taken from the greatest founders. But when I heard him talk about the mechanics of the models that's when I realized he's extremely knowledgable.
Did this man just mention Einstein in the first 5 seconds of the video Introduction ??? After a long time in the IT industry, I finally feel it's time my time to brighten and share valuable information/Content with the World, for 0 Costs. **Einstein's BFF** is what my YT Banner literally says, exactly that was the feeling I was experiencing in Rabbit Holes... Mr. Lex, I think they deserve uppercase as legit Names does. :). Big Motivation if you ask me. Thank you Arvind.🚀 Thank you Lex.🚀 Special thanks to all the people 🚀 who enjoy digging Rabbit Holes!
The key bottleneck of LLM based AI is the Lack of Curiosity. That’s where the smart investments should now be focused. To make future models curious. Curiosity is the key driver of human progress.
I have just registered to Perplexity and started asking, from mundane to very difficult questions, and questions on recent events too. it's amazing !! no bullshit and contorsions, focused answers and very relevant "follow up", which are probably a killer app, showing the direction for Gen AI. Thanx Perplexity, and Lex !
I tested this engine by asking it to give a general biography of me. It falsely stated that I was the host of a particular podcast. I had been a guest on that podcast once but was not and am not the host. It also falsely cited me as the author of a scientific paper while ignoring many other publications that it could have cited. I would say that based on this brief analysis it is in early beta mode if the CEO is suggesting it returns "academic" information, meaning that it cites sources. If the sources are incorrect then it is no more useful (academically) than other AI engines, which often return false citations or attributions.
I'm a big fan of your podcast and have been listening regularly. I recently came across Billy Carson, the founder of 4BiddenKnowledge, and was impressed by his expertise in ancient civilizations, extraterrestrial life, and conspiracy theories. I think his unique perspective would be a great fit for your podcast.
Thank you Lex, I loved this episode. Learned so much of new concepts and ideas. You always ask the right question. How did you develop that skill? I only learned about PerplexityAI recently. Could you please make more episodes with such lesser known, but cunning edge technology companies. E.g. Ramin Hasani from LiquidAI Thank you
I just tried using perplexity to price compare three different grocery items between two websites (Walmart and Meijer). First I only gave it product names, it could only find prices for a few items on it's own. Second I gave direct links to the items at each store, even with the links it was pulling the wrong prices off the pages. Third I told it the correct prices for each item. Fourth I asked for it to summarize the prices of all three items combined between the two websites, it forgot the prices for two of the items, I had to remind it to scroll back and reference what it already knew. Guess it wasn't built for this, but would've been neat if it worked, especially if it worked on the first try.
First you only gave it product names: prices on items, especially grocery items, differ widely throughout the world. Second you gave it direct links: meaning you asked it to find something you already knew. And it would still search all of it's available information, not just your "direct links". Third: you've gone insane by this point. Fourth: Again, it searches all available information. Ask better questions. ❤ It works better than you think.
No I agree with you. I like perplexity as a product.... no I love it lol but only for specific use cases. For example, it's reaaaaallly good at finding youtube videos that i have had trouble finding again on RU-vid after forgetting the video title or the channel name.
If you want more truth, many of the truth channels are not on Google, but private networks. Where would you recommend people with true but censored info to upload their content so it can be found by ai?
Arvind answers very well that the right kind of curiosity and question a good starting point for knowledge creation. Please if you can give some more detailed example on it ?
Curiosity, Concern and Care for our open and ongoing, integrally developing, and conscientiously advancing ...Creativity, Constructivity, and Collaborativity.... coming forth and going forward.
Thankfully my Rabbit R1 came with a year of Perplexity pro which at this point is the only thing I'm not disappointed with. Fell in love with Perplexity after that. I'm was an avid googler but switched to Perplexity for most of my searches other than pretty basic ones even with Gemini. Love the collections and multiple model access as well as the search functions. It became one of most used apps. The Rabbit R1 though is a big disappointment so far but the year of Perplexity pro made it pretty much a free gift so I don't even care anymore. Just discovering Perplexity was worth the $. It's amazing to be able to use different models at any point as well. Love the concept in general and it's very well implemented.
Knowledge without compassion is void. Truth without love is cruel. Understanding without passion is cold. Why are we here is more essential and life changing than how.
