Week 5 - POE and Quora

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Today, Quora announced that it is opening up public access to its new AI product, Poe. Poe is an AI-powered platform that allows users to ask questions and have back-and-forth conversations with multiple AI-powered bots. Initially, Poe is available on iOS, but the company is planning to add support for all major platforms in the coming months, along with more bots.

The potential impact of AI on knowledge sharing is enormous, and Quora is keen to explore this potential. The company expects AI to be far more transformative than the personal computer, the internet, or the smartphone, and it expects it to have a much larger and more positive impact on society and on the world economy. With this in mind, Quora is building Poe as a new product independent of its existing platform. The company will evolve Quora itself as AI enables better experiences, and it will distribute the content created on Poe on Quora when it meets a high enough quality standard.

Poe's AI is currently powered by models from OpenAI and Anthropic, but Quora expects a large number of models to be available in the near future. However, beyond training a model, making it useful for the public requires a fast and easy-to-use interface, and most people and even most companies who are capable of training or fine-tuning these models are not well suited to create these interfaces. This is where Poe comes in, as it fills this gap and greatly reduces the amount of work needed for any AI developer to reach a large audience of users.

Quora hopes to become the most efficient way for people to collectively explore the possibilities opened up by new AI models as they are released. The name Poe is short for "Platform for Open Exploration" to reflect this intent.

Even with superhuman AI, there will always be a vast amount of knowledge in people's heads that has never been communicated and is therefore inaccessible to AI and to the rest of the world unless people share it. Quora hopes that AI can further accelerate the sharing of this knowledge, just like the internet did.

Please note that the AI available through Poe is not perfect, so it will be useful in some cases but not in others. Quora will do its best to fix the problems within its control as quickly as possible, but it will take time for AI research to continue to advance to the point where many of the flaws today are addressed.

If you're interested and you have an iPhone or iPad, you're welcome to try out Poe starting today by visiting poe.com. Quora will be working hard to fix any problems that come up during this launch, so please send them any bugs or other feedback you have. They will also be working very hard to finish support for their Android, web, and other platforms in the coming months, so stay tuned. 

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