“How can I use an AI resource like Perplexity to assist in my job as a Network Engineer?”
It lists a number of things about network analytics, automation, prediction of issues, etc. “Can Perplexity do any of the things suggested in the previous answer?” A long winded answer saying in essence, “No, not really.” At least honesty isn’t an issue….yet. Wait until marketing finds out that the language model is not an enthusiastic advocate for the product. Then they’ll find a way to make it give a slimy sales pitch. -Adam From: dmmoff...@gmail.com <dmmoff...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2024 11:12 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: RE: [AFMUG] AI tools Jesus Christ. I paid the $20 and uploaded a bunch of Nokia manuals and somehow the answer to “how to configure an XGS-PON port” got even more wrong. It has invented sequences of commands that definitely do not exist on this platform and are not in the manuals I provided. Since I paid $20 I experimented with a number of other questions. It’s doing ok with general questions about concepts and capabilities, but any question about HOW to do something is either ridiculously wrong or dangerously wrong. By ridiculously wrong I mean completely incorrect command syntax. By dangerously wrong I mean commands that would be accepted, but which would result in no service on that port. It must be so good with Arista/Cisco stuff because there are so many examples on the web it can work with. Presumably it can’t understand how routers work, but it can find an example that does what you asked for and regurgitate it for you. There may be a better use for it, but I don’t know what yet. If anybody thinks of anything I’ll certainly try it while I have a month of this service paid for. -Adam From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, June 03, 2024 10:02 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AI tools Seems like all AI get a lot of their training on Reddit. Pros and cons to that. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, June 3, 2024 7:51 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AI tools I just gave Perplexity (free version) two questions where I know how GPT responded. "How do I configure OSPF export filters on Arista EOS?" This answer was accurate, in fact it was more concise than what I got from chat GPT. "How do you configure an XGS-PON interface on the Nokia ISAM 7360?" This answer was wrong. Now, to be fair, Nokia has a lot of products, and I think what it gave me was the correct commands for a different Nokia product. It's the right sort of syntax you'd see on a Lucent/Alcatel/Nokia product, it's just wrong for the ISAM 7360. Another difference between those questions is Arista's documentation is freely available on the web whereas Nokia's documentation requires an account and login to access. The reason I'd look for help on Nokia is specifically because the commands can vary, and the documentation is too much to digest for a mere human. The doc package for the ISAM 7360 is >20,000 pages. That's not counting release notes, white papers, forum posts, and technical notes. So this is the exact sort of thing I really would like help researching and it gave me a wrong answer on the first test. I followed up with "These instructions may be for a different Nokia product. Are you sure they will work on 7360 ISAM?" It provided several citations and concluded, "....therefore the instructions I provided should be applicable to the 7360." The first citation is a reddit post about configuring the ports on an NT (ethernet) card. It apparently learned the naming convention of PON ports from another source and adapted the instructions on reddit using the NT card command syntax and inserting the PON port names. That's an impressive bit of learning and correlating sources, and it's the sort of thing a human might try while learning the platform. It's still wrong though. -Adam On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 7:27 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com <mailto:khoh...@kwom.com> > wrote: Anybody here use AI on a daily basis, like for research or creative purposes? I’m an AI naysayer, but this looks awfully attractive. There’s a free tier, or unlock the full capability and almost unlimited queries for $20/mo. I’m not sure I could do a decent eval on it though. https://www.howtogeek.com/perplexity-is-the-only-paid-ai-chatbot-you-need-heres-why/ https://www.perplexity.ai/pro -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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