Perplexed-ity?
I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
I’ve read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity’s Comet browser. I want to like them and I want to cheer for them but jeesh Louise I just can’t when they repeatedly flaunt the crawling rules. I get it; there’s this sense of desparation when you work at a tech company with cool technology and yet you have such a small market share and you try so hard. Maybe Apple will buy them?
My other musing would be about Anthropic. Here’s an 800 pound Gorilla in the frontier model space that is apparently making money had over fist, and could quity possibly be crippled by a class action suit based on the fact they stole ebooks to train their system.
Always clever Google
Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs. I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task. The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...
Bill Gates, not a jerk billionaire
Bill Gates has announced he's giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs. Here's the announcement from Gates Foundation There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them. A have an internal screed about...
Gemini = Lazy Google?
Now my mind is just equating Gemini to Lazy Google. For example, I wanted to modify the footer of tquist.com website. But what footer and where do I modify this? In the pre-Gemini (or LLM) days I would have typed my question into Google search and looked for...
AI Musings 5-5-2025
I am struggling to determine the best way to compare the big three LLMs. Side by side comparison of the same prompt is logical but yeesh, not sure I’ll have the time for such detailed analysis. Another thought I’ve had is to use a different one for time periods and...
AI Musings 5-2-2025
I have been trying to use the top 3 (in my mind at least) LLMs regularly. I feel most likely to grab Copilot as Microsoft has so nicely put a cool looking rainbow colored icon on the taskbar of Windows. I scratch my head a little as I don't recall allowing Microsoft...
AI limitations – let’s change a Google Voice number
TQuist had a Google Voice number for a long time. I never used it well, and then I neglected it, and then it was releasted back into the wild. I confirmed earlier my previous number has been assigned to some else, which makes sense due to my inactivity. So I want a...
This is why we can’t have nice things, part 1 of ???
"Researchers have estimated that a ChatGPT query consumes about five times more electricity than a simple web search." This article from MIT Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ughh, the water...