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The perplexities of information retrieval

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Daniel & Chris sit down with Denis Yarats, Co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, to discuss Perplexity’s sophisticated AI-driven answer engine. Denis outlines some of the deficiencies in search engines, and how Perplexity’s approach to information retrieval improves on traditional search engine systems, with a focus on accuracy and validation of the information provided.

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1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Neo4j (00:00:44)

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3. Perplexity Denis Yarats (00:01:51)

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4. Perplexity's journey (00:03:12)

5. Elevator pitch (00:10:40)

6. Sponsor: Backblaze (00:13:27)

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7. Categorizing models (00:15:39)

8. Balancing model tradeoffs (00:21:04)

9. Prompt pain points (00:25:19)

10. Sponsor: NordVPN (00:28:18)

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11. Preparing for new modality (00:29:59)

12. Evolving UIs (00:32:38)

13. Seamless interfaces (00:36:22)

14. Safe retrieval (00:39:07)

15. Vision of the future (00:41:45)

16. Thanks for joining us! (00:44:48)

17. Outro (00:45:19)

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