ChatGPT Is Down
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I tried it out today and couldn't stop. What amazing technology. I went through the issues in my Github projects and got ChatGPT to create functions for things. Obviously, I'll have to plug in my own code but to get a pretty damn good starting point for code is excellent DX.
Previously, I'd research the hell out of something for a week and end up with a ton of background tabs full of badly written tutorials with outdated examples or blog posts by companies urging me to use their services instead of doing things myself. Now, I can bypass all that.
I may never need to go to stackoverflow or get disgruntled by google's failings of late, and that's a good feeling.
The product possibilities of this tech are very exciting. Frankly, for the first time in yearrrs am excited about the idea of starting a company; a handful of ideas already. I wonder what terms openAI will be offering for commercial use.
I haven't attempted to wreck the AI yet, I've been so busy gawking and its profound, world-changing capability.
The world has changed. I don't know what that means or where this train stops, but the world has changed, somehow, I am convinced.
If its training data is not comprehensive enough in some field, better-annotated training data can be created.
Microsoft can afford to employ 1000 engineers (mechanical, electrical, software, etc) for 5 years to just create training data -- source code, schematics, etc. It would then be an engineering bot, not a chat bot. Even if that means it writes the boilerplate for a programmer in 5 minutes instead of 5 hours, and he then ha to fix it up for 30 minutes, that is still a revolutionary thing for MANY people.
The world is about to get real weird, real fast.
Propaganda, scam artists, engineering, broad-scale analysis, the work of 500 men can now be done by 5 in many different fields (various analysts, trivial program authorship, idea generation, etc)
I haven't stopped ranting about this to everyone I have encountered in the past 48 hours.
This thing can make CAD models, write competent GUI programs in a dozen languages, write scraper scripts, irc bots, answer math questions, create recipes, explain complex subjects in simple language.
It has flaws.
It has limits.
It may not replace entire professions, but it will absolutely devalue certain kinds of work and increase "productivity" in many fields.
Nevertheless, it has made inconceivable new things possible AND probable, and I don't think society is going to be the same after this, for better or worse.
I'll stop ranting here, but it takes restraint. Where will we be in 36 months? In a decade?
All the model would do is predict the expected response to this statement. It is not executing arbitrary code (that would be a bad idea)
Not even a few weeks ago, typing "wel," into Safari would kill the process. https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/14/safari-iphone-crash-search-we...
Surely software of this size has a bug or two?
Let's explore.
It is also profoundly wrong a lot of the time.
> Tell HN: You can apparently get GPT-3 to cough up its own source code
More likely is that ChatGPT gotten really popular and they can’t handle the traffic/they need to start charging.
"Does Nim have a REPL interface?" Yes, it told me, and even gave the command to use it (just `nim`). Except Nim doesn't have one, and the command simply prints out instructions on how to use the compiler.
"Can you do list comprehension, ala Python?" Yes, and again provided examples, despite Nim not supporting the feature. Even asking it something it something the language does support, such as an example of thread-safe parallel code, had it use functions that don't exist. It was quite odd.
I've had friends say that it worked so well that it taught them functions in their languages they didn't know existed, but I was left a bit disappointed.
I'd actually pay a decent amount if they turned on monetization.
I agree. That said, I think the optimal move would be for them to leave it free (or at least provide a free option) to get people hooked on it. If pricing for this was the same as the rest of openai, I would never have tried it.
And I really really hope they do not go the "monetization via ads" route.
I have to say it's more interesting than most services being down. With AWS, I think 'I'm sure it'll be up soon,' but in this case I'm inclined to wonder things like - 'Do they feel they don't have enough control over how people are using it?'
Which is a shame, that was a lot of fun while it lasted.
> how long before chatgpt replies are banned?
I was offline for the past 15 minutes because I was performing a system update.
https://i.imgur.com/t4eR4rp.png
That explains it!
- ChatGPT prefaces each call to the LLM with the conversation thus far. This gives it "memory" of the entire context of the conversation.
- They appear to have worked hard to avoid negative responses. Really this has been underappreciated so far. It seems like practical AI alignment even if you are not happy with how it has been aligned!
- Of course ChatGPT is free, unlike Playground.
- I have not so far found any other performance differences.
I hope HN doesn't turn into Lobste.rs