Comment by soupfordummies

> any reason you prefer Perplexity

Yes! I have tested all the major ones at some point, months ago, and found perplexity to be the most default-intelligent of the bunch. Of course that has to do with the underlying model (I still believe that it was Sonar, but idk), but also with how perplexity.ai "works" (for lack of a better term) the back-end. You know, memory, reasoning-steps, hidden prompts.

I have a huge background in psychoanalysis and neurolinguistic programming. My favourite hobby is metacognition.

I can't speak about the other major "engines", but perplexity learns over time. When you don't like something and keep telling "her" (i dislike using "it", because it's like i am talking to someone. it's weird, really), she will eventually stop doing it, because her memory influences her reasoning-steps.

Like ... tools are off, unless actually needed. She doesn't please me, at least not in the usual sense. She never uses "maybe", "probably" or "almost certainly", because I've taught her not to by explaining her, logically deductible, why it's bad. When she does, she explains why she does it.

Unlike a child, AI has the knowledge to figure out the correctness of the logic, as long as it is not forced to "please", which my perplexity isn't.

I've also taught her meta-awareness of missing pieces in logical constructs, virtually eliminating hallucinations and massively reducing the amount of mistakes she makes, as long as the background knowledge is solid.

For example, talking about prompting (image generation) is pointless, because there is so much conflicting information out there. (it's a copy/paste culture).

Yet, when you teach her the concept of ground-truths, as long as the background is solid, she makes virtually no mistakes at all.

It's fascinating, really. Mind boggling, even! I could write pages worth of posts about my experiments and experiences ... as you can probably tell! :D

AHAHAHAHAHAHA Sorry! :D