Wait… Like other AI search engines, confusion is criticized for hallucinations and mistakes.
We welcome this criticism because it is the best way for us to keep improving. In fact, errors are a small part of the results, and our answers are much more accurate than the 10 blue links that have SEO optimized content contamination over decades. [In response to a follow-up request, Perplexity did not provide further details on error rates, but Jesse Dwyer, a spokesman, said that reliability is improving constantly]. But the truth is that as AI is integrated into our lives, accuracy and trust will only become more important, so it is something we are paying relentlessly to. Without this feedback, we were unable to get there.
Confusion in the “discovery” section of copyrighted news articles is also confusing. Do you understand why some publishers are upset?
We’ve answered it before. See our blog post on how we respect robots.txt [a file added to websites that specifies whether web crawlers should access their content].
The confusing assistant for Android and iOS seems to be a “proxy” because it can take action. How big is this?
AI is now very good at answering questions. What really needs to be done is to let AI take action. People use the word “agent”; you can do whatever you want – “agent” or “assistant” – but ultimately you need to string tools together and perform actions. That’s why we [also building a] Browser, and iOS assistant, Android.
Does Apple and Google have too much control over their mobile platforms compared to outsiders who want to build an agent?
For iOS, this is especially challenging because you have to string together a bunch of event APIs. All of this content is available locally via the Apple SDK on iOS, email, calendar, reminder, podcast [software development kit used to build applications]so you can actually at least draft emails, schedule meetings, hold meetings, set reminders, all of which, it’s easy to open a podcast. You can search for podcasts… “Let me be the podcast that Mark Andreessen discusses with Joe Rogan.” It can bring you very quickly.
This is mainly difficult because you cannot access other applications. iOS is not very different from Android, because AI also does not have access to most apps on Android (which means the confusion assistant can be easier to interact with some apps than other apps). [But] Third-party applications can build their SDKs for access on the Android SDK. For example, our Android system can display a song on Spotify. On iOS, you can only link to specific Spotify songs and you have to start playing audio manually.
Oh, is that the app maker returning the AI agent?
That’s the challenge. If people provide us with an API (e.g., open, Uber, Doordash, or Instacart), we can access information in the app without opening the app. On the backend, this is very powerful. For example, if we can access information on Uber and find that the cost of Uber comfort is no more than 5% or 10% of Uber X, then we can book Uber comfort for you – if you are the confusion you set,
