5 reasons why I still prefer Perplexity over every other AI chatbot

I've been working with artificial intelligence (AI) since the 1970s, when Lisp was state-of-the-art. Lately, like everyone else, I've been looking at AI a lot more closely. While it's nifty and getting genuinely useful, it can still blunder, like the time Google's AI Overviews recommended users to eat "at least one small rock per day." AI can also lose its mind, such as when Grok went totally MechnaHitler. Even when I tell J. Random Chatbot to summarize an Otter.ai transcription of a meeting, it gets things wrong.

Also: 60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including who to promote and fire - does yours?

Therefore, I treat the results of my AI queries with great caution. However, I found an AI chatbot whose work I can easily double-check to ensure it's in the ballpark of being accurate ...