Aravind Srinivas

20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)

• The way to stop a chatbot inventing things is to forbid it from saying anything it did not retrieve, not merely to hand it extra context. (opens korrents.com)

  “The principle in Perplexity is you’re not supposed to say anything that you don’t retrieve, which is even more powerful than RAG because RAG just says, “Okay, use this additional context and write an answer.” But we…”

  2024-06-19

• The way to make a dent in search is not to do what Google does better, but to do the thing Google does not want to do. (opens korrents.com)

  “We would rather take a more dramatic position, that the best way to actually make a dent in the search space is to not try to do what Google does, but try to do something they don’t want to do. For them to do this for…”

  2024-06-19

• Google's weakness is its own margins: it cannot go aggressively after anything less profitable than a link click, which is exactly where a challenger should attack. (opens korrents.com)

  “What is the weakness of Google is that any ad unit that’s less profitable than a link, or any ad unit that kind of disincentivizes the link click is not in their interest to go aggressive on, because it takes money…”

  2024-06-19