Improvement Curve and User Needs vs. Advertising Revenue

Artificial Intelligence is on every business leader’s agenda. How do we make sense of the fast-moving new developments in AI over the past year? In new episodes released throughout December and January, Azeem Azhar returns to bring clarity to leaders who face a complicated information landscape.

This week, Azeem speaks with Aravind Srinivas, the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity.ai, about the looming challenges in AI research and product development, such as user-centric design and the importance of open-source models.

They discuss:

• AI as a tool for democratizing information access.
• The “innovator’s dilemma” for Google Search.
• Whether or not conversational interfaces will become the norm for how we interact with AI.
• The array of interests shaping the AI regulation debate.

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Further resources:

• How Perplexity.ai Is Pioneering The Future Of Search (Forbes, 2023)
• AI’s First Flight: An Early Milestone in Generalised Intelligence? (Exponential View, 2023)