Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This came though the AI Tidbits newsletter this week. Mindsearch is intended as an alternative to Perplexity. "It decomposes the user query into atomic sub-questions as nodes in the graph and progressively extends the graph based on the search result from WebSearcher. Tasked with each sub-question, WebSearcher performs hierarchical information retrieval with search engines." I haven't tried it; when I'm doing research, search is the least challenging problem to solve, in my experience. Here's the code on GitHub.

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