Evolution of Answer Engines and the Rise of AI Models

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Exploring the shift in chatbot technology leadership, this chapter discusses the competitive landscape of large language models evaluated through human preferences. It covers the transition from proprietary to open-source models like Facebook's Coherent, highlighting the significance of advanced training data sets and potential human input for model enhancement. The chapter showcases a demo of a Google competitor, you.com, emphasizing the importance of user interface, real-time data sourcing, and concerns regarding content summarization and copyright issues.

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Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss the potential of new search engines (16:44), the future of SEO(37:35), and demo innovative AI products (48:37).

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(00:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason

(2:42) Deep Dive into the cost of running queries and the decrease in the price of hardware storage

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(12:33) The LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard

(16:44) Modern Answer Engines: You.com and Perplexity

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(30:22) Potential and challenges of new search engines

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(37:35) Future of SEO and data sources in the context of new search engines