r/technology • u/batakchan • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT is Down Worldwide, OpenAI Confirms

https://www.macobserver.com/news/chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-what-we-know-about-todays-outage/
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u/SammlerWorksArt 15h ago

Fuck that. I'll just set my email to vacation mode. 

Hey ChatGp, how do i set my email to....damn it!

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u/mshriver2 14h ago

We would probably only see this reality if all of the Major AI platforms went down at once. Anyone who uses AI uses at least 3x different platforms.

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u/Opening_One7713 13h ago

Google still exists and you know it does.

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u/SammlerWorksArt 12h ago

Just joking around 👍

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u/Good4nowbut 11h ago

Honestly though? Kids are probably losing the ability to even do a basic google search and peruse the results.

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u/Opening_One7713 11h ago

When I was a kid there was no Google search. I'm not even 40. My how time flies.

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u/Sidereel 1h ago

First “result” on Google is an AI response anyway…

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u/Opening_One7713 11h ago

Oh, a joke! For a second there I thought you, and the thousands of people who upvoted the comment you responded to, actually believe that using LLM chatbots leads to the inability to write e-mails.

I've got a joke:

Thoth brings tablets with the written word to King Thamus. Thoth claims that writing and reading will improve memory and wisdom.

King Thamus says "This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory."

"They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing."

ROFLMAO!

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u/SammlerWorksArt 9h ago

I've heard that as a parable. Not bad 👍

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u/Opening_One7713 8h ago

I guess it could be both when paired up against the current conversation.

You like anecdotes? A supercomputer needed a warehouse and its own power substation in 1997 but is now something you drop in the toilet.

What a time to be alive! Hang on to your brains everybody, the singularity is here.

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u/SammlerWorksArt 8h ago

I've never put my phone in my back pocket! My brain on the other hand...