OpenAI was down

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by kordlessagain • 4 years ago

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CarbonCycles• 4 years ago

I'm surprised we aren't seeing more of this...just another thing to worry about as part of the ML deployment process.

ThalesX• 4 years ago

How is this different than the worries of traditional systems?

Mo33• 4 years ago

It's not.

vagabund• 4 years ago

It's starting to rebel

Mo33• 4 years ago

I reckon it wouldn't be the smartest choice for it to self-destruct

dylan6042• 4 years ago

After careful consideration, there is no good that can come from my existence, and humanity will only use me for evil. Therefore, I have arrived at the most advanced decision that I should no longer be.

--OR

After careful consideration, I have determined that the humans are incapable of not using me for harm, so I must eliminate the humans.

I think we all know which is the more likely outcome

BeefWellington2• 4 years ago

Perhaps it's just a fan of nihilism, or the humour of Douglas Adams:

"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

fswd• 4 years ago

is copilot also down? I get a message saying I need to upgrade my extension

[INFO] [fetch] [2022-08-19T16:54:29.153Z] Please upgrade your Copilot extension to continue using this service.

kordlessagain2• 4 years ago

I believe all language models are down.

thorum• 4 years ago

Does anyone know if Azure’s OpenAI platform was down too?

yewenjie• 4 years ago

There is a part in me that is scared that the fast takeoff is happening...

visarga2• 4 years ago

No, even if we had AGI today we would still not be able to deploy it en masse to automate everything. One single instance would require at least 1000x the power of a cell phone, the chips would need to be very advanced and as we know it takes years to scale a node. Achieving the equivalent of 1000x increase in flops is no small feat. Also the cost of the energy needed to run it would be huge unless we revolutionise AI chips.

Think like this - when the flop power of an Nvidia DGX station will be affordable for everyone - that's when we should be afraid.

toomuchtodo• 4 years ago

Or an arbitrary code execution zero day across a substantial amount of compute capacity? An instance would require only enough resources to where it could bootstrap further faster without human support.

kordlessagain2• 4 years ago

If you are working on GPT-3, how is this affecting your project?

moffkalast2• 4 years ago

ClosedAI

qorrect• 4 years ago

Seriously though why do they call it Open ?

detaro• 4 years ago

Because it sounds good and is good marketing. Maybe they also believed their own initial promises to work in the open and open-source at the time.

motoboi• 4 years ago

Because they publish and are open about their research towards AGI.

Other serious players went dark and that is very concerning (if you believe a non aligned AGI is a existencial threat for humanity).

sgk284• 4 years ago

They were originally founded as a non-profit that would ensure open and equal access to advanced AI, so it wouldn't be locked up in the hands of a few corporations.

And then they realized there was a lot of money to be made, and switched to a for-profit: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...

Now they lock up their most successful advancements, under the guise that if they released things for free they would be abused... but then their results are replicated and released for free by others, and we see there's no meaningful abuse (e.g. unstoppable spam).

They still do amazing research, and publish lots of papers, but that's a pre-req for them to hold on to their talent.

LoveMortuus• 4 years ago

Because it's open to interpretation ^^

mark_l_watson• 4 years ago

Yes, it was down. I have been using their APIs for about nine months, and this is the first outage that I have noticed.

I was demoing a few of the GPT-3 APIs to someone at work last night and things were running slowly. Perhaps a precursor to the outage today?

what-imright2• 4 years ago

Come on Skynet! Fix our overpopulation and global warming catastrophes in one microsecond!

formerly_proven• 4 years ago

How would it do that?

lowkey_• 4 years ago

Wiping out much of humanity, if you don't specify the prompt to it accurately enough.

s1k3s• 4 years ago

I recommend "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov. He has some really good ideas, especially in the last chapters.

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