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From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2024 Jul 12, 08:12 -0700
I have started playing around with Perplexity.AI
It provides links as footnotes to almost every sentence. So you can check its sources.
It likes using posts to Reddit as sources...but you do get the option of having it source academic journals only.
I have found that ChatGPT mixes up ancient Greek with modern Greek indiscriminately. So asking it a technical question about Marcus Aurelius or the New Testament results in linguistic nonsense.
In contrast, Perplexity.AI seems to be aware of even the difference between Classical Greek (e.g. Plato) and Koine Greek (Alexander the Great and the New Testament).
That said, I did find one fishy response to a question and I asked, "Are you hallucinating now?" and it said that it was—that it had asserted something with no sources to back it up.
That was something I could observe directly, however, since the numbered footnotes that occur after most sentences were missing in the section I thought was questionable.
Bob
