Perplexity AI Quiz

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1. How does Perplexity AI describe itself relative to traditional search engines?
   • An 'answer engine' that gives direct, cited answers
   • A photo-editing suite
   • A video streaming service
   • An email provider
2. How does Perplexity describe its web-research answer experience?
   • A publicly specified fixed proprietary RAG architecture
   • It searches web sources and presents responses with citations
   • Answers generated only from model pretraining
   • A verified database that guarantees every answer is correct
3. What limitation applies to citations in an answer-engine response?
   • They guarantee that the source itself is accurate
   • A citation link does not guarantee that every claim is supported by the linked source
   • They prove that every source is peer reviewed
   • They prevent the model from making mistakes
4. A key benefit of grounding answers in retrieved documents rather than only training data is that the model can:
   • Run entirely offline with no internet
   • Avoid using any language model at all
   • Only answer questions about history before 2010
   • Cover recent events and cite current sources
5. What does Perplexity's 'Focus' feature allow a user to do?
   • Restrict searches to specific source types like academic papers
   • Change the screen brightness
   • Delete the internet
   • Translate the page into emojis
6. What does Perplexity’s current Pro Search help page say users can select before a search?
   • The training set for every web source
   • An underlying model from the available model choices
   • A guarantee that every citation supports every sentence
   • The rank order of all public search engines
7. What does Perplexity say its Computer experience can do?
   • Replace every original source with an uncited answer
   • Train a model on private browsing history by default
   • Run multi-step workflows for research, analysis, creation and coding
   • Guarantee error-free actions on every website
8. What does Perplexity describe its Comet browser as letting users do?
   • Train a private foundation model from every page
   • Guarantee that all web content is accurate
   • Replace every underlying website with a citation
   • Ask, navigate and act in the flow of web browsing