Getting started

0:00 perplexity is an AI powered chatbot and is created to be an alternative to search engine so they actually refer to themselves as an answer engine because when you ask a question here it's going to give you one answer and it has some powerful things like a focus mode if you're writing specifically for academic papers for example I'll show you this in more detail you could also attach images and PDFs there is a whole PR search option that gives you a whole lot more access to more powerful AI in the background as well we'll dive into this here in this video and by the end of this video you'll have a really good grasp on what perplexity AI can do so to get started just go to perplexity doai this is a website and if you click the download tab they also do have apps for your iPhone your Android phone and they have a chrome search default you could actually change this to be your search engine by default and they have a Chrome extension too if you're using Google Chrome for this video we're going to focus on the website so to get started this is where your prompt goes and he also gives you suggestions and as you type in a search or a prompt here the text underneath will also autocomplete

1:09 to give you other suggestions now I'll show you this Focus mode this attach icon and this Pro mode in a second right now let's go ahead and do a typical search here and I'll press send and this is what the result looks like on perplexity so on top it's going to show you the different sources that he found the answer from and here's the answer so basically all you get and really all you need is this answer and then you'll see all the different sources that it pulled from so it doesn't pull just from one link like traditional Google search it's going to pull from multiple different links and kind of assemble this answer and you could quickly rewrite the answer too so if you don't like it you could click here and you could rewrite it based on some of these other models now some of these are going to require a pro version so I'll show you that when I

1:55 cover the pr mode in a second you could also share here so this share link you also Al appears on top where you could go ahead and copy this link and send it to someone or press this search option and you could get different links like this one is only the author could view this this is a sharable link and you could share it to your different platforms from here too you could also search for images here on the right side so if you click search for images it's going to go ahead and do a search and video here it's going to do a quick video search and this is going to open up a YouTube video for example if you click on it you could also generate images but this is a pro option that I'll show you once we turn on Prom mode now if you're using this for research they also have collections that come in handy so let's say I'm researching generative AI I could click on collections up here and create a

2:41 research collection for that topic that I'm researching at the moment I could add a little Emoji if I want give it a description here I could also change the Privacy here and make it more secret or sharable sharable is okay create now if you go to the libraries tab you're going to see all your recent conversations that are called threads and you'll see your collection so I created a collection but it actually doesn't have anything inside of it so I could press this plus sign and add it to my generative AI collection now if I go to this collection it's going to have the thread of that conversation or that answer that I had underneath and if you want to collaborate with other people you could always press this invite option right here and send them a link and they could actually join you inside of these conversations as well and