Personal Computer by Perplexity

dakial1

So Perplexity's openclaw? Hopefully more secure?

gtowey

> There is a kill switch ...because this thing will go rogue faster than you can blink. I swear, it's like nobody at the company even reads the slop they're generating or thinks about it for any amount of time. In what world is advertising a kill switch as one of its essential features a positive? It's basically admitting from the start that this is unreliable.

HumanOstrich

Stop posting AI slop, especially slop pull requests like the one you made to OpenClaw. Learn the first thing about a project you want to monetize and make fake contributions to. For example, OpenClaw is overwhelmed with slop PRs and the author has talked about this a lot.

aaronbrethorst

Oh no, April Fool's Day is going to be tremendously awful this year, isn't it

recursive

> the computer lives with you. What does this mean? The computer isn't alive. It's physically located on my person? Phones and watches have already cracked this. If I say "Bob lives with me", that just mean that they generally share a residence with me. Desktop PCs already do that. I just don't understand what's even intended by this.

d--b

OH so that's why it's called Perplexity!

QQ00

Openclaw + Microsoft Recall = Personal computer by perplexity. At least this is my interpretation from reading that web page.

jkestner

Sneaky use of an almost Garamond, but the copy ain't Chiat\Day.

password54321

No moat. If you rely on OpenAI / Google / Anthropic you are doomed.

ChrisArchitect

Blog post: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/everything-is-computer

par

read it and have no idea what it does

claysmithr

Wow they designed a computer I don’t want

bisonbear

sounds like it's another openclaw-as-a-service provider?

paxys

Whatever happened to Preplexity? They were all the rage a year or two ago, and now I hear...nothing. Is the product still being used? Making money? Or just overtaken by the base LLMs it was relying on?

paxys

TL;DR - Perplexity-branded OpenClaw

eitally

Ten years ago I would have thought this was an excellent April Fool's Day launch. Now I just think it's foolish.

tartoran

Page is unreabable on smaller phone such as my IPhone SE as text gets cropped out on the sides and cannot be zoomed out. Did I miss anything?

SirensOfTitan

The generic elevator music used for the demo video is highly representative of this whole concept: generic and derivative. Seriously though, Perplexity, like most of the AI wrapper companies, seems unable to innovate much beyond the query-response chat paradigm. I don't understand why VCs continue to fund these ai-slop companies. I see a new company's advertisements on the NY subway every week, and they're all the same: Anthropic/Google/OpenAI resellers who are selling some UI wrapper (or at best a bespoke model worse than the flagships) on top of pretty basic prompt engineering or tools. This is what happens when we invert the product-paradigm: we're not solving problems with technology, we're taking technology and applying it to problems. I use AI every day, so I'm hardly a luddite, but this bubble is so ridiculous at this point. This perplexity product, more than any other so far, feels so representative of peak craze.

jcims

From the blog post ( https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/everything-is-computer ) >Personal Computer runs on a dedicated Mac mini that can run 24/7, connected to your local apps and Perplexity’s secure servers.