This CNBC guy is the absolute worst. Whenever I hear him talk about Tech he is the most consistently uninformed person and asks the dumbest questions.

Perplexity is amazing. This is a hit piece funded by a competitor.

Funny Joe used the phrase ' garbage in, garbage out' without realizing that is the truth, his query was garbage, so Perplexity gave him a garbage response.

Perplexity is a great product. Sounds like the presenter didn’t like the answer he got when he searched for himself.

Why is the host so angry? All of these AI tools explicitly say that it can be inaccurate.

Disagree. This is almost hit-piece level unbalanced. Perplexity has been super useful for me. And it footnotes all sources, doens't just scrape reddit. It's a great product.

The anchor seems to not know what he is talking about

why is this guy on TV?

Joe is a terrible interviewer. He has no idea what a.i does, he himself spew misinformation all the time😂😂😂😂

What an odd interview.

Perplexity is my favorite. It gives me the best results. Someone funded a hit piece

Why is it confusing? This seems like a coordinated effort to bring down perplexity

I agree it does feel like a hit job. I very rarely have any complaint with my perplexity search results.

If it’s “garbage in garbage out”, then if you go directly to the information source, it’s still garbage. Only now you’ve spent precious brain cycles having to look through ads to get to it. I don’t use Perplexity to find the right answer immediately, I use Perplexity to help me get closer to the right answer more efficiently without having to do manual searches and looking at irrelevant content.

I stopped after 2:31 into the video. To quote him "I was looking for sentience" and found he had none.

I had to check the comments because I use perplexity all the time and I love it. So to call it trash makes no sense whatsoever 😂.

Joe has given us a demo of how a discussion between Luddites would look like. There is an ongoing bet in the AI community on whether Joe will be replaced by a bot before his natural retirement.

This feels like a hit job. Perplexity is great! It is a thoughtfully designed knowledge discovery engine. It's for the curious!

Was the old man was whining?

What ever thr topic is on the planet. Joe manages to make it political. 😂

It is odd that attack on Perplexity by CNBS. The anchor admits he doesn't know much, then jumps to the valuation that has nothing to do with the criticism on quality of the product. I use many of the LLMs, and I like Perplexity because it reads searched web pages and present a summary of the sources. If you don't trust or like a source, you can tell Perplexity to ignore it. The additional followup questions at the bottom is quite helpful too.

The presenter just convinced me to purchase a perplexity subscription where I wasn’t going to before. 😂

These tech experts can't even explain what is wrong with the product. He probably asked what color is the shirt that i'm wearing right now? and it gave him 10 different colors and told him where to buy it.

Wow, thats harsh even for wall street.

The fellow's description doesn't compute. Perplexity was recommended to me this morning by someone with a very wide grasp of the digital world and with my very brief experience today I'm finding Perplexity very different from the fellow's description in this YT video above. Unrecognizable, actually.

Dear CNBC, this interview was a catastrophe. The host interrupted the guest on numerous times to make irrelevant points that do not reflect the Perplexity product. He should not speak on technology. Even at its base use of “summarizing ‘Google’ results” that is a huge time saver and the host is missing the value. Would you rather run 20 Google searches and read 50 articles or have an AI do it for you? As alluded to by the guest, Wired (Conde Nast) has a bone to pick against perplexity as they do not want their content being used to train an AI. With an interview like this, you should interview someone from Perplexity as well to defend against the accusations. It could be that the wired site was misconfigured or used as a honeypot to wield against Perplexity. Please work on the quality of your journalism.

Note to CNBC: Your viewers expect relevant , accurate information that keeps them up to date on new Technology not misinformation spewed by an out of date out of his element host who seems to fit the mold of a FOX NEWS cast member. I was expecting to hear him say "What in tarnation is this ?" at any moment .

If this is what corporate media has to say about it, it must be awesome.

This interviewer barely let the guest talk. It was mostly his own angry ramblings.

Haha.. sounded like Joe asked AI about himself and reddit answers didn’t disappoint.

Joe Kernan has turned into a right-wing mouthpiece over the last 8 years, since Trump first ran. Thank god Bloomberg TV exists as an unbiased source of financial news. Whenever Kernan is on CNBC, I change the channel to Bloomberg. Kernan seems to forget that Democrats buy stocks too. I just wish that the producers at CNBC who keep him on the air would understand that too.

I've never heard of Wired but Perplexity is great.

Makes me wonder about their motives. What I got from this is stay away from CNBC and WIRED. Perplexity is great.

I am a perplexity user it is amazing not sure what they are talking about. Seems like they have an agenda …

He seems mad that he didn’t get the answers he was looking for.

This CNBC host needs to be replaced with an intelligent AI host that actually understands AI. "I expect sentience" - What?!

If you ask it opinion questions you are going to get opinion answers. Joe definitely asked it " do people like me "... For technical or fact based stuff Perplexity is amazing..

She has a valid point.

He wouldn't let her speak , just forced his opinion down the audience's throat.

So: wired lady agree that perplexity is "garbage in garbage out" because perplexity scanned wired magazine? Does it mean that the wired thing is garbage?

Did he just say, "I'm looking for sentience?" My gosh.

If you dont want to disclose information , please store it in your secret wallet. Not in the public domain. What non-sense is this.

What is this man doing on this topic?

Please pin this page when 'AI' crash. This guy is so frank because he has not invested any money like the rest.

the fact he also says that whats the point of AI if you have to check it... well Joe, if something used to take analysts an hour to do but takes the AI seconds and analyst now spends 5 minutes checking the work so that they can use 55 minutes to do more higher value stuff, that's pretty valuable to a lot of businesses

Perplexity is great. I use it every day

Perplexity Bots and persons of interest have taken over the comment section.

How is it garbage or BS? They give you answers and cite the source. Kernan is confused again.

Oh man, there can't be a TV host who is so far behind the knowledge curve as this one.

Can't believe CNBC allowed this. This guy should never be allowed to report on tech news! He has absolutely no idea what he is saying!

Funny conversation of a non-tech guy trying to have a conversation with a highly skilled tech lady. Her big words just flew right pass his head. LOL

Perplexity is awesome. It's not confusing and it's not difficult to figure out how to work. These people are idiots.

Why is it okay for Google to use their journalism in its search results, but not okay for Perplexity?

To everyone watching this video I would absolutely love your opinion on if this is a Hit Job on Perplexity or not.

HHAHAHAHHA, AI is overvalued & overhyped & a big hot bubble, anyone with a brain can clearly see that. only pumpers say otherwise

really cringe how he keeps cutting her off

Perplexity is advertised as an AI search engine so of course all it does is search the internet. It does all the searching for you and then compiles the information it finds. I use it often for basic things I'm curious about or for gaming information. I agree it does make mistakes sometimes, but if you're not sure about something it says, or if you want to double check something it provides all of its sources.

Did Google pay CNBC to downplay Perplexity? I think so.

“Perplexity is confusing”. Really? Most developers of AI chat bots can’t figure out why their LLMs give the answers they do, and here is Perplexity citing its sources and people find it confusing. I don’t think this reporting is credible.

I just tried Perplexity. I tried asking it very basic engineering questions and it consistently gave me wrong answers and presented those wrong answers very convincingly.

Perplexity is amazing and almost always gives accurate information in a much better way than any other product. This analysis of Perplexity is garbage in garbage out.

Lol this guy has a personal vendetta against perplexity or something? He was very harsh in his word.

Never saw perplexity site reddit.

I like how solid and accurately Katie responds, even while the CNBC guy is extremely biased and also seems to be the “I’m shouting the loudest, so I’m important” kinda guy. He’s not knowledgeable enough to lead.

This is so biased. Perplexity is excellent

Perhaps CNBC and Wired should work harder and focus on finding hosts who can deliver information better than Perplexity and appointing a global editorial director who can produce articles better than a chat bot called Perplexity rather than whining. The race with AI is on guys, and it's time to step up the game. Atleast perform better than it before complaining how bad it is. I love to read good articles but Perplexity seems to be doing better journalism than journalist here.

Meta is essentially doing the same thing . Ask it any question and it will scrape various websites and formulate a response quoting their source at the bottom. Yesterday Meta AI actually gave me two wrong answers.

I have used perplexity and now is my default to find factual information. I have stopped using Google that is plagued by sponsored links.

It is obvious that the moderator does not truly understand how Perplexity works. If he did, he would recognize that with Perplexity, you can search using many different models to get a more nuanced response. If he is just using the default model, he is really not using Perplexity in the best way possible. Of all the AI projects out there, you are more likely to get a balanced response from Perplexity because you have so many different models to pick from. Legal issues will be hashed out in court, but as for me, Perplexity gets a big thumbs up.

the host is definitely talking like a boomer

This fails to note Perplexity cites all sources used to generate answers , it’s not garbage when the sources are cited from reliable sources including medical journals for example

Perplexity is by far the most useful Ai tool because it allows us to have any LLM with a single subscription and it also provides accurate answers by going over the Internet and siting sources. What’s this old man whining about?

This should be reported for misinformation.

The Wired’s grief is that Perplexity scraped the data and not about quality and trying to go after them with the article.

“Reddit chatboard” You just gave up all credibility when you said that statement bud. Also doesn’t help your case when you admit “you don’t use” ai tech much.

Did a double take seeing this title after Perplexity just saved my ass.

Wow:). Clearly has never used it. Because it’s excellent.

Old, dying media attacking new media. :) I think there's a bit of professional jealousy going on here.

Sounds like Perplexity is taking market share from their own investments.

Why is this particular company being targeted? There are so many other chat based offering out there including ChatGPT that spew out nonsense and uses editorial content to built answers but they chose this one.

This is what Lazy Journalism looks like. The point of Perplexity is to bring together everything on the web with the sources. It's a research tool. Now in Wired's case it is a known fact that the problem with Perplexity is who will and will not allow Perplexity gather information. Wired has a right to not allow these platforms to access information.

He has no idea what he's talking about.

Why does he get so emotional about something he himself defines as garbage

Your repirt is BS and super biased. Perplexity is pretty awesome.

My experience has been that Perplexity always supplies source links and also almost always warns where warnings seem to be needed - either the commentator is out of his depth big time (most likely) or less likely it's hit job..

Train of thought: - What if i searched covid? - What if it says covid jumped from one animal? - It could do that - Are any of them fair at this point Epic logical reasoning from this genius.

Let me do a step by step rebuttal. 1. First, Google has been in the search business for far longer than perplexity but their AI-enabled previews are qualitatively worse than Perplexity. There is hallucination in Perplexity but it hallucinates to a lesser extent than Google's feature which I must say was so that they can compete with Perplexity. 2. Isn't what Joe is saying and the Wired piece actually opposite. Joe says Perplexity uses garbage data to train on stuff like reddit posts. If that is true, then it is not a threat to websites owned by Wired's owner Condé Nast as they produce legitimate websites I assume or at least what the Wired reporter would like to say. So, if Perplexity is using genuine websites, then Joe's argument is wrong. If Perplexity is only using "junk websites" as according to Joe, then the Wired lady does not have anything to worry about. They should first discuss what they are agreeing on before ranting. Is the topic: Perplexity is bad and hallucinates, or is it Perplexity broke the robots.txt norm of scraping/crawling. 3. For Joe, it seems like he is feeling personally threatened that Perplexity is good. If Perplexity is bad, then like all startups which give unsatisfactory results, it will perish irrespective of who funds them. 4. So Wired has a bone to pick with Perplexity so their piece is not an objective piece then. If this was coming out of another company (TechCrunch or Verge), one can listen to their argument. But if it comes from Ars Technica or Wired both owned by Condé Nast, then there is conflict of interest in how they will present the case for Perplexity. 5. Last but not the least, robots.txt is still seem as proper etiquette and in the US, the 9th circuit court had considered following robots.txt as terms of service/agreement of web use but had not sided with the aggrieved website in a past case. So, there is no clear legal precedence in US law which would guarantee that Perplexity is 100% legally wrong even if it is proven that they did do what Wired is alleging. Their investigation at this point has no meaning to any neutral party.

AI needs to be empircally validated. It hasn't achieved independent measurement validation, He is just responding the way any skeptic would reasonably respond.

This story smells fishy. I've found it to be the best AI search tool out there. It makes it easy to look at its sources and ask follow up questions. Was this story sponsored by Copilot? Is the anchor's job threatened by AI? Dude's so frustrated.

He was looking for sentience and perplexed he didn't find any! CNBC and their reporters needs some, no doubt.

I find Perplexity to be an excellent tool for research, for grasping deep profound philosophical concept, making connections. Just everything you want in an AI toll, the collection feature to keep your past thread organized for easy reference is a great addition!

Gotta love these hit pieces. He said all you need to know at 2:35 when he gushed over Googles' brilliance. Perplexity absolutley is a useful AI tool that is threatening Google because it answers questions with cited sources vs Google just providing search reaults.

I’m perplexed at their take on Perplexity Ai. So far, I find it to be the best of all of them out there. It hallucinates way less than any of the ChatGPT models.

This guy is getting angry that AI is getting close to taking journalism jobs like his

Hit piece. perplexity is not BS. Katie Drummond is BS

This guy is a demonstration of why ignorance and arrogance is such a bad mix.

Both the host and the guest have absolutely no idea what that are talking about

Watson seriously made a mistake that big? I was possibly looking into Watson for my company but after seeing how much they are charging I am shocked and even more shocked to learn they are charging that kind of money for errors! These models need to have a logic engine at the last mile to the user to verify and confirm the information. Hell it could write its own logic code. I think the problem is our RAG methods we are using, cutting things into chunks causes context loss.

I love Perplexity. This dude doesn't know what he's saying. If he was smart enough to prove the virus didn't come from the wet market, they'd make him a researcher, he wouldn't be sitting on his ass blabbering on TV. Also you can literally ask Perplexity to give you 10-20 different arguments about any hot topic, if you wanna be as unbiased as possible. Though I'll say Perplexity worries me a little bit with the way they crawl data, they step on some lines they shouldn't be. They'll be in legal trouble soon.

Thats not what Ai is and it certainly not just googling and putting lifted phrases from its search together to form content / responses. This host is clueless.