Is Perplexity better than ChatGPT for Improving Your English?
Summary
TLDRThis video tutorial introduces 'Perplexity,' a free AI tool that enhances English learning by combining the interactive capabilities of Chat GPT with the information-rich features of Google. The presenter demonstrates how Perplexity can be used for various language improvement tasks, such as discovering email sign-offs, learning idioms, improving pronunciation, and getting TV show recommendations. It also excels in providing explanations with real-world examples and summarizing articles for quick comprehension. The video encourages viewers to explore this powerful resource as part of their English learning toolkit.
Takeaways
- 🧠 Perplexity is a powerful, free AI tool that combines the interactive capabilities of chat with the information sourcing of Google to improve English skills.
- 🔍 It provides back-and-forth interaction, allowing users to ask questions in a natural way and receive clear, concise explanations.
- 🔗 Perplexity offers up-to-date information with clickable sources, making it easy to verify the information provided.
- 📧 The tool can help improve email writing by suggesting various formal and informal email sign-offs with explanations and sources.
- 📚 For language learners, Perplexity can provide a list of common idioms with meanings and examples, tailored to the user's request for simplicity or complexity.
- 🗣️ It recommends tools for improving pronunciation, including a personal video by the script's speaker, and provides explanations for each tool with citations.
- 📺 English learners can get recommendations for TV shows to improve their language skills, including popular choices like 'Friends' and 'The Big Bang Theory', with sources for each recommendation.
- 👽 Perplexity can find articles on specific topics of interest, like UFOs, with simple language tailored for English learners, including summaries for quick understanding.
- 💼 It assists in interview preparation by providing common interview questions for specific roles, such as senior graphic design positions, along with sources for each question.
- 📝 The tool can explain specific terms in context, providing recent, simple language explanations with sources, helping users understand how terms are currently used in media.
- 📚 For grammar learning, Perplexity can provide explanations of grammatical concepts like the subjunctive mood, complete with real-world examples from various sources.
Q & A
What is the name of the AI tool mentioned in the video for improving English?
-The AI tool mentioned in the video for improving English is called 'Perplexity'.
How does the speaker describe the combination of features in Perplexity?
-The speaker describes Perplexity as a combination of Chat GPT and Google, providing both back-and-forth interaction and up-to-date information sources.
What is an example of a task Perplexity can help with according to the video?
-One example given is improving email writing, specifically finding different ways to sign off an email and understanding their formality levels.
How does Perplexity handle follow-up questions or requests?
-Perplexity allows for a back-and-forth interaction, enabling users to ask follow-up questions or make additional requests to refine the information provided.
What are two capabilities of Perplexity highlighted in the video?
-The two capabilities highlighted are 'Discovery' and 'Explanation', where Perplexity can help users find information and understand it better.
How does Perplexity assist with learning common English idioms?
-Perplexity can provide a list of common English idioms along with their meanings, and upon request, can give two examples for each idiom.
What is one of the advantages of using Perplexity for discovering language tools?
-One advantage is that Perplexity not only lists the tools but also explains each one and provides citations for further reading.
How can Perplexity help with finding TV shows to improve English?
-Perplexity can provide a list of popular TV shows recommended for English learners, complete with sources like IMDb and citations for verification.
What is a unique feature of Perplexity when looking for articles on a specific interest like UFOs?
-Perplexity can search for articles on a specific interest with simpler language tailored for English learners, providing a more focused and accessible selection.
How does Perplexity assist in preparing for a job interview?
-Perplexity can provide common interview questions for a specific role, such as a senior graphic design position, and allow for follow-up questions or additional queries.
What can Perplexity do when provided with an article for context?
-Perplexity can read the article and provide explanations of specific terms used within it, as well as a bullet point summary of the article upon request.
How can Perplexity help with understanding the usage of a word in context?
-By pasting the article into Perplexity and asking for the usage of a specific word, Perplexity can provide the meaning and context of the word as it is used in the article.
What is the speaker's suggestion on using Perplexity for English learning?
-The speaker suggests using Perplexity as one of the many tools available for English learning, emphasizing that it should be part of a broader set of resources.
Outlines
🤖 Discovering Perplexity: An AI Tool for English Improvement
This paragraph introduces the AI tool called Perplexity, which is described as a combination of chat GPT and Google for its ability to provide interactive, clear explanations and up-to-date information sources. The speaker intends to demonstrate how to utilize Perplexity to enhance English skills, offering prompts for various language tasks such as writing emails, learning idioms, and improving pronunciation. The tool's strengths in discovery and explanation are highlighted, showcasing its ability to provide tailored responses and sources for further reading.
📚 Leveraging Perplexity for English Learning and Discovery
The second paragraph delves into the practical applications of Perplexity for English learners. It discusses using the tool for discovering resources such as TV shows for language acquisition, reading articles on topics of interest with simplified language, and preparing for interviews with relevant questions and answers. The paragraph also emphasizes Perplexity's flexibility in handling follow-up questions and providing summaries of articles, making it a valuable tool for learners who need to understand complex topics quickly.
📝 Enhancing Language Understanding with Perplexity's Explanation Features
In the final paragraph, the focus shifts to Perplexity's explanation capabilities. It illustrates how the tool can be used to understand the context and evolution of terms like 'fake news,' providing explanations with real-world examples and sources. Additionally, the paragraph covers how Perplexity can help with grammar learning by offering explanations and unique, real-world examples, emphasizing the importance of using multiple tools for English learning and encouraging learners to explore Perplexity as part of their language toolkit.
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Keywords
💡Perplexity
💡Chat GPT
💡Email Sign-offs
💡Idioms
💡Pronunciation Tools
💡TV Shows
💡UFOs
💡Interview Questions
💡Fake News
💡Flagship
💡Grammar
Highlights
Introduction to Perplexity, a free AI tool for improving English.
Perplexity combines features of chat GPT and Google Chat for interactive explanations and up-to-date information.
The tool's flexibility allows for precise queries and follow-up questions.
Providing sources with information, enhancing credibility and allowing users to verify data.
Using Perplexity to improve email writing by discovering different sign-offs and their formality levels.
Discovering the 50 most common English idioms with examples to enhance language learning.
Perplexity's ability to offer tools for improving pronunciation, including personalized video recommendations.
Recommendations for TV shows to watch for English learning based on various sources.
The capability to ask for additional information or follow-up questions on any topic.
Reading articles on topics of interest like UFOs to improve English, with language tailored to English learners.
Using Perplexity for interview preparation by discovering common questions for specific roles.
The tool's ability to provide explanations with recent and specific examples for better understanding.
Learning the context of a word found in an article by pasting the text into Perplexity.
Requesting a bullet point summary of an article for quick understanding when time is limited.
Explaining grammar concepts like the subjunctive mood with real-world examples from various sources.
Perplexity as a versatile tool for language discovery and understanding, not just for English learners.
Encouragement to use Perplexity as one of many tools available for English learning in the current era.
Invitation for feedback and questions in the comments section, and a reminder to like, subscribe, and check out the free course.
Transcripts
in this video I will show you how to
improve your English with a powerful
free AI tool called perplexity if you
don't know it if you haven't used it
that is okay I will show you how to use
it to improve your English and I will
provide the prompts I use in the
description of this video so let's jump
directly into perplexity think of it as
a a combination of chat
GPT and Google Chat GPT is really good
at the back and forth providing long
clear explanations right that you can
interact with coming up with ideas right
working on stuff Google is good at
providing information sources you click
on the links well perplexity is a
combination of these two you get the
back and forth feeling of Chachi BT it's
very flexible you can ask things exactly
how you want to ask them you want an
explanation that's very simple great
perplexity can provide that just like
chat GPT but chat GPT often struggles
with sources and often information is
not up toate right and so perplexity is
more like Google in that way upto-date
information sources for where the
information comes from so it's pretty
cool it's pretty cool and we should
check it out I'm going to go through a
few prompts and I will provide again
more in the description let's say I'm
working on my emails I want to improve
how I write emails I know there are many
ways to sign off an email right what I
say at the very end so what are the
different ones I can use right and how
formal each one or casual so I could say
what are the most common ending
salutations used in emails and what I
get with sources with sources is a list
of formal sign offs semiformal soffs
best warm regards all the best informal
sign offs right and an explanation and I
can ask a follow-up question here for
example or a follow-up request give me
more casual ones right and then I can
get get more so it's back and forth in
that way which Google isn't but I also
get the sources that I can click on I
can easily see where that comes from and
the other four sources that that
perplexity used to provide this useful
information maybe I'm looking for common
idioms so I want to well I want to learn
maybe the 50 most common idioms again
very quick and simple request here are
50 common English idioms along with
their meanings maybe though I don't like
how it's given I want two examples for
each so this is something you can't
really do in Google so instead of asking
for just the common idioms I want the
common idioms each with two
examples very useful right so there are
really two things that perplexity does
really well Discovery and explanation
we'll look at explanation in a minute
but let's look at a couple more for
Discovery what are the best tools for
improving my pronunciation okay the best
tools and what oh hey one of the sources
is me that's my
video thank you perplexity I appreciate
you recommending my video I made a video
about the Google pronunciation practice
tool and perplexity thinks it was a good
one and worth recommending so here's the
list of tools explaining each one along
with a fantastic video to explain in
particular how good Google's tool is at
helping you practice your pronunciation
and again for all of these you get the
you get the citations so very cool I
want some recommendations for TV shows
that I can watch to improve my English
you know what are other English Learners
using what TV shows are they watching if
it works for them maybe it'll work for
me here are the most popular TV shows
recommended for English Learners based
on various sources the sources are uh
promov and IMDb and story learning okay
friends of course is at the top of the
list and the citations I can quickly
click on and check right if I want to
The Big Bang Theory Brooklyn 99 which I
think is a good uh a good option
stranger things which is a great choice
Modern Family that's a good a good
sitcom the crown if you're into some
British English breaking B classic drama
amazing The Simpsons that's a good one
for I think learning culture okay so and
some you not all American as well some
British some Australian so a lot of good
recommendations and maybe I want a
further breakdown and so you can just
you can just select and ask followup
basically and get more information about
that specific thing or here you can ask
a follow-up question like give me uh
give me five more right and get and get
five more so that's the kind of flexible
part maybe I'm really into UFOs that's
my favorite topic well a great way to
improve your English is of course to
read right reading articles is a great
way to improve your English but if you
read stuff you're really interested in
it will be easier to not give up now I
could just Google UFOs but I want
articles that I can read right articles
with kind of simpler language but are
still in my interest my area of interest
of UFOs for example so here I'm using it
like Google but the way I ask it is a
little more specific than a basic Google
search I can specify exactly what I want
right I'm an English learner and I want
simple language in my articles so only
give me those it's like having an
assistant who can search Google for you
hey go search Google find articles that
you think I would like about UFOs and
give them back to me okay and basically
that's what you get right so we have an
article here from NPR that seems like a
good one scientists are starting to
study UFOs more seriously that one's
from science news so I have some some
useful articles that I can check out but
first I might read the summary of each
one which is also very cool maybe I'm
preparing for an interview so this is
the last one for Discovery I want the
interview question questions that I will
be asked for my senior graphic design
interviews here are the sources startup
here's better team and here are the
common questions that I will be asked
strengths and weaknesses handling
criticism uh design process and tools
could you walk us through your design
process that's a very good question and
now here I might ask a follow-up or
perhaps here I would then paste that
into chat GPT chat GPT is really good at
taking this kind of thing and coming up
with three versions of an answer to a
question okay these are just a few ways
to use perplexity for Discovery now how
about explanation well let's let's get
some explanations using perplexity maybe
I've been seeing a specific term I've
been reading a lot of news and I see a
term everywhere and I want to get some
more context you could try this in chat
GPT but I'm I want the sources but I
want it to be recent chat GPT can
struggle with that I want fresh
information so I might ask it like this
how has the term fake news changed over
time in recent media use Simple language
and specific examples in your
explanation can Google do that no Google
will just serve me articles about that
but then I have to read all of the
articles I want a kind of meta view of
this word and how it's used with the
sources Frontline an article about fake
news how misinformation has changed news
very good and here's my explanation for
how fake news has been used over time
with the sources that I can quickly
check very cool a very good explanation
and it gives me the social context to
understand that word or that that phrase
uh a little bit better right not just
what it means but how it is used now
what if I just want to learn a word in
context I found a word in an article a
specific article and I just want to know
what does it mean here right so paste
the article that's another cool thing
just paste the article and say what you
want to know explain the usage of the
word Flagship in the context of this
article then I just paste this Tech
crunch article and I get in the context
of this tech tech crunch article the
term Flagship refers to open ai's Major
or leading model which is typically a
significant or highly anticipated
release okay so I can ask follow-up
questions here but perplexity has read
the article and can give me this
information well if it has read the
article then could perplexity provide a
complete bullet point summary of the
article absolutely so let me paste in
the same article with a different
request could you read this article and
give me a bullet point summary this is
very useful I don't have time to read
this article that my friend shared so
I'm just going to paste the article in
and ask for a summary and then I can at
least talk about it I don't want to I
don't have time to read the whole thing
so here now I get a bullet point summary
AI open AI is Shifting its devday
conference format the company will not
announce its major model at devday Dev
Day events are scheduled for San
Francisco on October 1st okay so I get
that bullet point summary of the article
incredibly incredibly useful now what if
I'm trying to learn grammar right well
when I'm learning grammar I want an
explanation which chat GPT can do but I
also want I want real examples that come
from real sources right so I'll ask for
an explanation of subjunctive mood with
unique realworld examples right I want I
want the examples provided to be real
created by other humans right uh I wish
I were taller this specific one comes
from let's see well either grammar
monster or quillbot right and so and
let's see I suggest that he study more
for the exam this one comes from
scribber or study I'm not totally sure
or a combination but I can I can
actually check and know okay these are
coming from a real place so if you're
trying to learn specific grammar or
idioms or phrasal verbs and you want to
know where the example comes from this
is a really good way to do it these are
all just ways to discover language and
understand language better get
explanations I'm not saying this is the
best way to do it it should be just one
of the tools in your tool belt right use
everything that you have available I've
said it many times this is the most
exciting time to be an English learner
because there's so many things available
to you now right and often many of them
are free or very inexpensive so check
out perplexity let me know what you
think let me know if you have any
questions in the comments if you haven't
done so already don't forget to hit the
like button and subscribe and get a free
course in the links in the description
and I will see you in the next one
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