With Poe we already have a new actor, although one a little different from the rest of the ones we have seen so far, which adds to the market, bigger with each passing day, of general purpose chatbots. It is true, however, that Poe is not a complete novelty since Quorathe popular online question and answer platform, already presented it at the end of last year, although until now it was necessary to have an invitation to try it.
Now, probably due to the increase in speed that this market is experiencing, Quora has decided to end the need for invitations and, therefore, make it accessible to all those users who wish to try it. Of course, to a measure that we can consider quite intelligent, this universal accessibility could be put in quotes, since at the moment Poe can only be accessed from his app, which For now it is only available for iOSAndroid and desktop users will have to wait.
Unlike what we expect to happen in other cases, especially in search engines for obvious reasons, Quora has chosen to segregate Poe, so that to access it we will have to use a specific app for the service, instead of the from Quora. In this regard, the official statement published by the company states that it has “decided to release Poe as a standalone product that is separate from Quora due to the rapidity with which AI changes and developments are occurring. However, there will be some connections between the Q&A site and Poe«.
And what does this mean? We will understand it much better if we continue reading the statement: «if Poe’s content meets a high enough quality standard, it will be distributed on the Quora site, where it has the ability to reach Quora’s 400 million monthly visitors«.
Quora has always stood out for the quality of its responses., that is, those given by the service users themselves to the questions posed by the community. Unlike other similar services, such as the now-defunct Yahoo! Answers, which ended up becoming a repository of absurd humor, in this case we can read questions, answers and threads of really enriching conversations. Personally I have been a (passive) user for a long time and I always find interesting content there.
The company is aware of this and, consequently, they do not want to compromise the user experience of the platform, with regard to the quality of the answers, in the hypothetical case that Poe is not capable of generating answers that are up to what the community expects. This, therefore, is the real reason, in my opinion, why at the moment neither Poe is accessible from Quora nor is Quora accessible from Poe. What’s more, we can’t even use our Quora credentials to log into Poe.
Regarding its technological base, at first I have defined it as a chatbot of chatbots since, unlike other AIs of this type that we are seeing in recent months, Poe allows users to ask questions and get answers from a variety of AI chatbots. In this regard, for now we can choose between Sage and Dragonfly (both powered by OpenAI) and Claude (powered by Anthropic). The chatbot selector indicates that there are other bots in development, so we will see this list grow.
This morning we were talking about ERNIE, the Baidu chatbot that will debut next month, yesterday about Bard, the chatbot with which Google wants to take on ChatGPT and very likely, in a matter of hours, we will also have news from Microsoft (and , of course, we will tell you about them)… It looks like 2023 is going to be the year of chatbots, right?
