Quora this week launched Poe, a platform that allows individuals to ask questions, get instant answers, and engage in back-and-forth conversation with AI chatbots, indicating its involvement in text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT.
Short for “Platform for Open Exploration,” Poe — which is invite-only and currently only available on iOS — is “designed to be a place where people can easily interact with a number of different AI agents,” a Quora spokesperson told TechCrunch via text message.
“We have learned a lot about building consumer internet products over the last 12 years building and operating Quora. And we are specifically experienced in serving people who are looking for knowledge,” the spokesperson said. “We believe much of what we’ve learned can be applied to this new domain where people are interfacing with large language models.”
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Poe, then, isn’t an attempt to develop a ChatGPT-like Ai system from the ground up. ChatGPT, which is adept at responding to questions on various topics from literature to coding, has been the source of debate due to its ability to provide responses that sound persuasive but aren’t factually correct.
Stack Overflow, a Q&A coding site, temporarily prohibited users from trying to share content generated by ChatGPT this month, claiming that the AI made it too simple for visitors to create responses and overflow the site with questionable answers.
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, for example, are being sued in a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating copyrighted material by letting Copilot simply repeat sections of licensed code without credit. Representatives of the art society portal ArtStation, which started enabling AI-generated craft on its platform earlier this year, began extensively rebelling by placing No AI Art images in their portfolios.
Poe’s initial release includes access to many text-generating Ai applications, including ChatGPT. At the moment, OpenAI does not offer a public API for ChatGPT. A Quora spokesperson declined to comment as to whether Quora does indeed have an alliance with OpenAI for Poe or some other form of early access.
Poe functions similarly to a text messenger app but for AI models the users can communicate with the models separately. Poe’s chat interface offers a variety of topics of conversation and use cases, such as posting help, preparing food, solving problems, and nature.
Poe comes with only a few models at launch, but Quora intends to add a way for model providers, such as businesses, to submit their systems for incorporation soon.
For the time being, Quora says it is concentrating on scalability, gathering feedback from beta testers, and addressing any issues that arise.
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