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Aravind Srinivas: belief

19 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

“I’m not saying it doesn’t have its flaws and there are things that are widely debated, but here I think you can just appear not to have any true emotional connection.”

— Aravind Srinivas

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Aravind Srinivas
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belief
Recorded
19 Jun 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Absolutely. I should say the same thing Perplexity is trying to solve also feels dangerous because you’re trying to present truth and that can be manipulated with more and more power that’s gained. So to do it right, to do knowledge discovery and truth discovery in the right way, in an unbiased way, in a way that we’re constantly expanding our understanding of others and wisdom about the world, that’s really hard. But at least there is a science to it that we understand like what is truth, at least to a certain extent. We know through our academic backgrounds that truth needs to be scientifically backed and peer reviewed, and a bunch of people have to agree on it. Sure. I’m not saying it doesn’t have its flaws and there are things that are widely debated, but here I think you can just appear not to have any true emotional connection. So you can appear to have a true emotional connection but not have anything. Sure.…

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