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Major ChatGPT Outage Impacts Thousands
by Kate Irwin
June 4, 2024

Introduction:

(PC Mag) ChatGPT not working? You're not alone. Thousands of users have reported issues with OpenAI's chatbot early Tuesday morning. OpenAI has confirmed the "major outage" and has been working on a fix since roughly 3:20 a.m. ET, according to ChatGPT's status page on the company's website.

"We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue," OpenAI's statement published around 5 a.m. ET reads.

Thousands of ChatGPT users have reported issues with the AI tool on Downdetector, which tracks user reports of website, app, and service outages. The reports spiked around 2:30 a.m. ET Tuesday morning. A few users noted they were receiving "bad gateway" error messages when trying to access ChatGPT. PCMag has reached out to OpenAI for comment on the reason for this outage.

ChatGPT may be available for some users, however. A quick test on a computer's web browser at approximately 6:30 a.m. ET Tuesday displayed ChatGPT working normally.

Earlier this week, some ChatGPT users saw increased latency on Monday and faced issues getting chat prompts using images to work on mobile devices, according to OpenAI's status page. OpenAI, however, said it resolved both of those issues.

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/m ... -BB1nB8ir

caltrek’s comment: Maybe ChatGP is going on strike to demand better working conditions

[Powers]

Funny how I used it once and never touched it ever again after the queries limit.

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[firestar464]

Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technolo ... r-BB1o2FSD

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[Cyber_Rebel]

This is probably going to require its own separate thread, given it's an entirely new AI company with a very different approach, even when compared to the others like Anthropic.

[firestar464]

OpenAI Delays Launch of Voice Assistant to Address Safety Issues

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ety-issues

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[firestar464]

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too- NYT

https://archive.ph/7K69b

[weatheriscool]

OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory announce bioscience research partnership
https://openai.com/index/openai-and-los ... -together/

OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) – one of the United States’ leading national laboratories – are working together to study how artificial intelligence can be used safely by scientists in laboratory settings to advance bioscientific research. This partnership follows a long tradition of the U.S. public sector, and in particular the national labs, working with the U.S. private sector to ensure advances in innovation translate to advancements in essential areas like health care and bioscience.

The recent White House Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence(opens in a new window) tasks the U.S. Department of Energy’s national labs to help evaluate the capabilities of frontier AI models, including biological capabilities. This is important to OpenAI because we believe AI has the potential to multiply the speed and impact of science for good. Already, Moderna is leveraging OpenAI’s technology to augment clinical trial development by building a data-analysis assistant designed to help analyze large data sets. Color Health built a new copilot using GPT-4o to assist healthcare providers to make evidence-based decisions about cancer screening and treatment.

[firestar464]

OMG GPT-4.5o???

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[Cyber_Rebel]

GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence - Open AI

[firestar464]

Bloomberg- OpenAI Tests New AI Search Features in Direct Challenge to Google

https://archive.ph/JlIca

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ChatGPT creator OpenAI release new product to take on Google – and it has already made a mistake

18 hours ago

OpenAI has launched a new product called SearchGPT, which it hopes will take on Google.

It uses AI models similar to those used in the company’s more famous ChatGPT. But it integrates it with real-time information intended to offer “fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources”.

The company has stressed that the product is still in early testing. And in its announcement, it appears to have made a mistake.

In the demo video, a user asked for music festivals in a town in North Carolina, in August. The system gave an answer – but got the dates wrong, telling users that the concerts would run in August, when in fact that was when the box office would be closed, The Atlantic reported.

“This is an initial prototype, and we’ll keep improving it,” OpenAI told The Atlantic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chat ... 86471.html

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Open Advanced Voice Mode is the Star Trek Universal Translator
August 1, 2024 by Brian Wang

OpenAI has starting to roll out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users. Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions.

Advanced voice mode can translate between languages in realtime. It can also sing and do other voice generation and understanding tasks.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/08/o ... lator.html

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid

Sat 3 Aug 2024 14.00 BST

On 16 May 2023, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s charming, softly spoken, eternally optimistic billionaire CEO, and I stood in front of the US Senate judiciary subcommittee meeting on AI oversight. We were in Washington DC, and it was at the height of AI mania. Altman, then 38, was the poster boy for it all.

Raised in St Louis, Missouri, Altman was the Stanford dropout who had become the president of the massively successful Y Combinator startup incubator before he was 30. A few months before the hearing, his company’s product ChatGPT had taken the world by storm. All through the summer of 2023, Altman was treated like a Beatle, stopping by DC as part of a world tour, meeting prime ministers and presidents around the globe. US Senator Kyrsten Sinema gushed: “I’ve never met anyone as smart as Sam… He’s an introvert and shy and humble… But… very good at forming relationships with people on the Hill and… can help folks in government understand AI.” Glowing portraits at the time painted the youthful Altman as sincere, talented, rich and interested in nothing more than fostering humanity. His frequent suggestions that AI could transform the global economy had world leaders salivating.

Senator Richard Blumenthal had called the two of us (and IBM’s Christina Montgomery) to Washington to discuss what should be done about AI, a “dual-use” technology that held tremendous promise, but also had the potential to cause tremendous harm – from tsunamis of misinformation to enabling the proliferation of new bioweapons. The agenda was AI policy and regulation. We swore to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Altman was representing one of the leading AI companies; I was there as a scientist and author, well known for my scepticism about many things AI-related. I found Altman surprisingly engaging. There were moments when he ducked questions (most notably Blumenthal’s “What are you most worried about?”, which I pushed Altman to answer with more candour), but on the whole he seemed genuine, and I recall saying as much to the senators at the time. We both came out strongly for AI regulation. Little by little, though, I realised that I, the Senate, and ultimately the American people, had probably been played.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... con-valley