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Quora has announced plans to launch a platform dedicated to interacting with AI chatbots, allowing people to ask questions and have a dialogue with the system.
Poe – short for Platform for Open Exploration – will be run by the Q&A website, which relies heavily on user input to generate its content.
The company was founded by Adam D’Angelo, who also sits on the board of directors of Elon Musk-founded OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT.
Quora Poe AI
In a message to TechCrunch (opens in new tab)a Quora spokesperson explained that the company’s 12 years of experience lends itself well to serving those seeking knowledge, and that “…much of what [Quora has] learned can be applied to this new domain where people interact with large language models.”
However, there is a growing number of concerns about the technology, with many claiming that the AI’s answers may sound so realistic and promising that they could be taken as fact, when in reality they may not.
Others are concerned about the source of the data, which is largely crowdsourced. Microsoft was recently sued for up to $9 billion for improperly attributing code sourced from and used for GitHub Copilot.
For now, Poe, which is invite-only and iOS-only, will remain disconnected, according to Quora TechCrunchcontact. Other than a description that reads, “Poe lets you ask questions, get instant answers, and have a back-and-forth dialogue with AI,” there’s little else to take from the App Store listing (opens in new tab).
But it is clear that the value of such artificial intelligence is more widely recognized. Google is reportedly on ‘code red’ in response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT (via 9To5Google (opens in new tab)), to the tune that the company is reportedly reallocating departments and even upending projects to shift focus to developing AI prototypes and products.
However you look at it, it seems that all companies recognize the lies and prejudices that AI can create, each with their own solution. OpenAI claims that ChatGPT can “admit its mistakes”, while other companies would consider limiting users or insisting on contributor moderation.