Let's take a look into perplexity AI, a generative AI tool that's getting a lot of buzz as the Google
Killer because of its fantastic search capabilities.
It's amazing for research tasks, but there's so much more to it.
Let's explore all the features and see what makes perplexity II stand out when you visit perplexity
II.
Whether you're logged in or not, you'll see its main features right away.
On the home page, you can perform searches just like Google, but that's just the beginning.
Under the home page, you'll find discover.
This is a treasure trove of articles curated by perplexity team.
Click on any article to see detailed insights.
Each article includes an index, introduction, sources, and various sections.
You can hover over the sources to check them out quickly.
At the bottom of the articles, there are options to perform follow up searches, which lets you guide
your research in whatever direction you need.
Here's something pretty cool.
While discover articles are curated by perplexity.
Users can also create similar pages.
After you create a thread, you can enable sharing or create a public page to share your insights.
How awesome is that?
Next, let's check out the library.
This is where all your threads are stored when you're logged in.
You can manage and organize them.
Here we'll dive deeper into managing threads and using collections in our next video, which will take
your organization to the next level.
Before we jump into our first search, let's explore some of perplexities.
Standout features.
First up, the search box.
This is where you input your queries or prompts based on your needs.
It's straightforward and super easy to use.
Next we have the attachment feature.
This allows you to upload PDFs, images, and text files up to 30MB.
This is particularly useful for detailed research or when you need to analyze specific documents.
Finally, there is focus This feature is one of perplexities unique selling points.
Focus allows you to select the context in which perplexity will search.
You can choose from all academia, social videos, writing and math all searches the entire internet.
Math helps with solving equations or numerical answers using tools like Wolfram Alpha.
Academia searches through published academic papers.
Video searches YouTube for relevant content.
Social finds discussions and opinions from social platforms like Reddit.
Writing works similarly to ChatGPT, allowing you to prompt the AI model to perform various tasks,
generate content, and analyze attachments.
Now that we're familiar with perplexity, let's conduct our first search.
Imagine you're planning a marketing campaign for an airline's new pet friendly program.
You want to research the best airlines for flying with pets in the US.
Let's type in what are the best airlines to fly with your pets in the US and see what you get.
As you can see, we get a summary and list of sources.
You can toggle any of these sources to exclude them from the generated content.
You can also ask for images or videos on the topic, or even generate images.
By picking a style just like that, you have an image to use for your campaign research.
Super convenient, right?
Since there's a lot to cover about searching and threads, we'll dive deeper into that in the next section.
For now, let's review some settings.
In the account section, you can customize your experience changing the appearance language and add
an avatar picture.
Edit your username and email.
You can also manage your data sharing preferences to help improve perplexity.
AI models in the Pro section, you can manage your subscription and select the AI models used for text
and image generation.
This is great if you want to take advantage of more advanced features.
In the profile section, you'll find a feature similar to Chatgpt's custom instructions.
You provide perplexity with information about yourself to improve the results.
Choose your preferred response language.
As you add more information, perplexity will ask follow up questions to refine your experience further.
If you have your payment plan set up or a Perplexity Pro account, you can access your API credits,
usage stats and API key in the API section.
This is particularly useful for developers looking to integrate perplexity capabilities into their own
applications.
Here are a few more tips to get the most out of perplexity AI the more specific your queries, the better
the results.
Instead of searching broadly, try and narrow down your focus to get more accurate information depending
on what you need.
Switching between different focus options can yield more relevant results.
For example, if you're working on a research paper, the academia focus can be incredibly helpful.
Don't forget the attachment feature.
Uploading your own documents can help perplexity provide more tailored responses, especially useful
for in-depth research projects.
Share your insights with others by creating public pages.
This not only helps others, but also allows you to showcase your research and findings.
At the end of each article in discover, you have the option to perform follow up searches.
Use this feature to dive deeper into topics that interest you and to explore related content.
That was a lot to cover.
Perplexity AI is a powerhouse tool for research and so much more.
We've only scratched the surface today.
In our next video, we'll dive deeper into Searching's Threads collections and explore some of the most
valuable use cases when working with perplexity.