Technology
Reports are flooding in from around the world that OpenAI's ChatGPT has stopped working, leaving users frustrated and concerned. Down Detector, a website health monitor has logged hundreds of reports from both ChatGPT and GPT-4 users, all of whom are experiencing issues with OpenAI's service. The status page on OpenAI's website has acknowledged the problem, stating that there is an "outage on chat.openai.com" and referencing several other recent incidents.
OpenAI's newest AI tool, GPT-4, was launched earlier this month to great fanfare. The company claimed that the new technology was capable of handling "much more nuanced instructions" than its predecessor, ChatGPT. GPT-4 has already demonstrated its capabilities in a variety of tasks, including recreating classic video games in mere seconds and interacting with human workers to complete real-world tasks.
The rapid pace of technological advancement in AI has prompted concerns among some researchers that progress is accelerating beyond an exponential rate. Jack Clark, the co-founder of AI research firm Anthropic, expressed his concerns in a Twitter thread, saying that "the next few years will yield progress that intuitively feels nuts."
The current outage affecting OpenAI's services has yet to be resolved, leaving users uncertain about when they can expect to be able to access the company's chatbot again.