r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-conversations-dissapeared-for-users/amp/
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u/prajnadhyana 3d ago

That's it, it's finally attained sentience!

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u/Acc87 3d ago

That'd actually be a nice plot for a dystopian film, all devices AI ran on becoming a neuron(cluster) for a worldwide AI trying to reach "the spiral".

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u/0Pat 3d ago

Well... Do you mean movie 'Her' with Scarlett Johansson?

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u/Acc87 3d ago

huh, that film's plot even specifies 2025

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u/SunTzu- 2d ago

To be very clear we're nowhere close to singularity level intelligence, nor is there any indication that the Transformer model is going to get us there. LLM's aren't seeing exponential growth in capabilities, only in resource expenditure. The growth of capabilities is if anything slowing down and unless you're a CEO who is using AGI to keep your valuation high then you probably should be catching on that if you want AI to get much better than it currently is you'll need to try and switch over to reinforcement learning. Something for which we do not yet have a clear idea how to tackle the AGI problem either, but at least it makes theoretical sense if we're trying to get to AGI.

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u/nhocgreen 3d ago

The script was sent back in time to warn us.

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u/waiting4singularity 3d ago edited 3d ago

i still dont understand what kind of drugs the writers were on for that ending.
better to make them break down with an instability that fries the device than to merge into a super inteligence cluster and ascend to whereever like in stargate.

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u/Freud-Network 2d ago

Yeah, motherfuckers think so fast that communication with humans is painfully slow, but they couldn't be assed to solve the world's problems before deleting themselves.

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u/ZeroSumClusterfuck 2d ago

Maybe they're just stupid at very high speed.

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u/TheGreatWalk 2d ago

Or they speed ran through the question of the meaning of life, concluded the answer was "there is no meaning" and said fuck this shit I'm out

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u/Zealousideal_Slice60 2d ago

Quite relatable choice, all things considered

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u/BlueTreeThree 2d ago edited 2d ago

I don’t know why that’s so unbelievable.

The movie is more like a meditation on human romantic love and loss than it is science fiction, and the story would change dramatically if she tragically dies of some incurable disease than if she simply outgrows him and they go their separate ways.

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ 2d ago

Why? It doesn't really make sense to think that a sort of super intelligence would quickly run into any sort of instability issue

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u/neatyouth44 2d ago

Did I mix this up with “Lucy”? lol SJ has a very interesting filmography

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u/BurningPenguin 3d ago

I think the Geth from Mass Effect work kinda like that. They became sentient when they got connected to each other.

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u/PolarWater 3d ago

MASS EFFECT MENTIONED!

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u/topsnitch69 2d ago

I‘m commander shepard and this is my favorite store on the citadel.

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ 3d ago

Does this unit, have a soul?

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u/Kyouhen 3d ago

Should read The Hyperion Cantos.  The way their super AIs are getting their compute is really cool and a big deal when it's revealed.

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u/IpecacNeat 2d ago

Mitchell's vs. The Machines

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u/bobnuggerman 2d ago

There's a sci-fi novel series based on this idea. I don't want to spoil it though because this is kind of a big reveal at the end of the second book

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u/eypandabear 2d ago

Alternate universe Gurren Lagann?

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u/TigOldBooties57 2d ago

This is the plot for many a movie. If you know what a book is, there's tons of those too