The site is riding on the AI chatbot bandwagon with its own chatbot dubbed Poe, according to Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo’s announcement made in December of last year. He said that Poe will enable people to ask questions, receive prompt responses, and engage in back-and-forth conversation with AI.
The CEO has since tweeted again to announce that the same is now accessible to the public. Users of iOS can download the app and begin asking inquiries right away. Following will be support for all popular platforms “over the following few months.”
We’re releasing Poe, a brand-new AI tool we’ve been working on, to the general public today. With the help of various AI-powered bots, Poe enables users to ask questions, receive prompt responses, and have back-and-forth dialogues. (1/n) pic.twitter.com/G9LeO45sc8
— Adam D’Angelo on February 3, 2023 (@adamdangelo).
That’s not all, though. Poe’s scope appears to have been greatly expanded by D’Angelo, who now claims that it will accommodate “many bots.” According to what he disclosed on Twitter, Poe wants to serve as a sort of bot aggregator, enabling users to access numerous chatbots that are tailored for various tasks from a single app.
D’Angelo believes that in the near future, there will be a number of models, including the GPT-3.5, and chatbots, like ChatGPT. These “will have access to different knowledge or [represent] distinct points of view.” He claims that in order for these models to be relevant to the general population, they must have a quick and simple interface, but he thinks the corporations that developed them “are not well qualified to construct these interfaces.”
