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Aravind Srinivas: evaluation

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

“You can do that too when you’re small just to delight users, but it doesn’t scale.”

— Aravind Srinivas

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Aravind Srinivas
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evaluation
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19 Jun 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…So constantly you come up with an issue with a particular set of documents and particular kinds of questions that users ask, and the system, Perplexity, it doesn’t work well for that. And you’re like, ” Okay, how can we make it work well for that?” Correct, but not in a per-query basis. You can do that too when you’re small just to delight users, but it doesn’t scale. At the scale of queries you handle, as you keep going in a logarithmic dimension, you go from 10,000 queries a day to 100,000 to a million to 10 million, you’re going to encounter more mistakes, so you want to identify fixes that address things at a bigger scale. Hey, you want to find cases that are representative of a larger set of mistakes.…

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