The State of A.I., and Will Perplexity Beat Google or Destroy the Web?

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A 12 months in the past, a chatbot tried to interrupt up Kevin Roose’s marriage. Ever since, chatbots haven’t been the identical. We’ll let you know how. Then, we’ll speak by the newest methods the world is adapting to synthetic intelligence. And lastly, Aravind Srinivas, the chief government of Perplexity, will talk about his firm’s “reply engine,” a challenger to Google’s search engine that might reshape the net as we all know it.

Credits

“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, and produced by Davis Land and Rachel Cohn. The present is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and authentic music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Pat McCusker and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.

Special due to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda.