If you're subscribed to their status page, you'll know it's actually unusual for a day to go by without an outage alert from OpenAI. They don't usually write them up like this but I guess this counts as PII leak disclosure for them?
For having raised billions of dollars the are comically immature from a reliability and support perspective.
To be fair, they accidently made a game-changing breakthrough that gained millions of users overnight, and I don't think they were ready for it.
Before chatgpt, most normal people had never heard of OpenAI. Their flagship product was basically an API that only programmers could make useful.
Team leaders at OpenAI have stated that they were not expecting the success, let alone the highest adoption rate for any product in history. In their minds, it was just a cleaned-up version of a 2-year old product. It was billed as a research preview.
So, all of a sudden you go from hiring mostly researchers because you only have to maintain an API and some mid-traffic web infra, to suddenly having the fastest growing web product in history and having to scale up as fast as you can. Keep in mind that they didn't get backing from Microsoft until January 23, 2023-- that was only 2 months ago.
These problems predate ChatGPT. Their API has been on the market for nearly 3 years. And they raised their first $1B in 2019. That's plenty of money and time to hire capable leadership.
Yeah but again, this is the fastest growing app in history and it uses way more compute than your standard webapp, and basically delivers all functionality from a single service that handles that load. I can see why there would be some growing pains.
Have to appreciate the irony of someone's SEO spam submission (submitter works for a company selling scraping services) being SEO spammed in the comments...
Some of you may be too young to remember the context of this. In 1993, an American was sentenced to be caned for what would be considered minor offenses in America.
It sounds bad, and it is, until you realize that he was stealing street signs, which is a crime in probably any country, not just Singapore. TBH, who decides to steal street signs in a foreign country?
Under the 1966 Vandalism Act, originally passed to curb the spread of political graffiti and which specifically penalized vandalism of government property,[1] Fay was sentenced on March 3, 1994, to four months in jail, a fine of S$3,500 (US$2,814 or £2,114 at the time), and six strokes of the cane.[6] Shiu, who pleaded not guilty, was sentenced to eight months in prison and 12 strokes of the cane.[7]
Yes, the US does not cane people but it also has a death penalty, bad prison conditions relative to other g-20 nations (solitary confinement for example), and people get long sentences for recidivism, or for certain felonies, or under 3 strikes laws. I think there is room for improvement for many countries, not just Singapore. He was sentenced 4 months for stealing the signs, which is commensurate with a misdemeanor in the US (1 year max).
> It sounds bad, and it is, until you realize that he was stealing street signs, which is a crime in probably any country, not just Singapore. TBH, who decides to steal street signs in a foreign country?
He was living with his mother in Singapore, so while he was a US citizen, he was stealing street signs "at home."
Also vandalism and theft of street signs is certainly quite common in St Louis, where he lived before moving to Singapore.
> prison conditions relative to other g-20 nations (solitary confinement for example), and people get long sentences for recidivism
If the US would properly apply the death penalty more, that would solve most of issues you list. Recidivism necessarily goes to zero, no need for solitary, etc.
Wow, surprised to hear this happens to other people! When I discover a new song I love, I'll nearly always have a night where I wake up with the song blaring in my head. Even if I don't know the song that well, my mind somehow reproduces intricate detail and fills in instrumental or lyrical gaps. In my teens and 20s I had really severe ear worms, some lasting for days or weeks. Fortunately that has lessened with age, but the nighttime concerts are still a regular occurrence.
I love the innovation going on in the search space lately. Defaulting to a chat interface adds a lot of burden on your users (need to formulate a longer query) and yourself (need to nail the response in top1). Personally I think there's enough cool stuff in your grid/list views to make it useful without trying to shoehorn this into a chat UX.
Thanks for the great question. Andi works well for keyword searches but where it really shines is when you give it more context. The key reasons for a chat interface are that it's simple, familiar and uncluttered, and reveals information progressively.
* Chat is minimalist. Part of the problem with google is "information overwhelm" - all the clutter and distraction in results.
* It's a super easy and familiar interface. Gen-Z users especially tells us they prefer messaging apps and visual feeds like Instagram.
* Combined with visual cards, a chat UI gives you progressive-reveal of information.
* conversational search long-term provides a natural and very human way to explore and refine results. Humans are really great at querying each other and maintaining context. And long term that's the aim here.
When you think if sci-fi AI, they are always conversational. It seems likely that's what the future will look like, rather than a page of truncated links with a lot of ads. So that's our thinking for the conversational interface, and we're super open and excited to hear more feedback on it! :)
I'm with you on this. I would love to be able to connect with ancestors I barely or never met, even if it only captures a fraction of their essence.
I worked on this for a while but Microsoft holds a pretty broad patent on this concept, which scared me off.
Parent of two long-time Montessori kids here. We have been through both public and private Montessori schools. Unfortunately, the public one did not work out because they were heavily constrained by the district's requirements, so the Montessori aspects were very watered down.
What I like about Montessori is that if a child finds a "work" that interests them, they can really focus in on it until mastery instead of feeling pressured to follow a specific curriculum on a specific timeline. I also like the de-emphasis on grades and testing. These are distractions from learning IMO. As for academic progress, one of my kids picks things up early and the other picks things up late. It just depends on the child. We aren't yet to high school, so I can speak to that transition. I'd be lying if I said it didn't worry me a little, though, mostly because I think of high school as a stressful place and my kids are currently in a very low-stress place.
"As agents were about to begin the search, Ms. Morgan and Mr. Lichtenstein said they would leave their apartment, but wanted to take their cat, the filing says. The agents allowed Ms. Morgan to retrieve the cat, which was hiding under the bed.
But as Ms. Morgan crouched by the bed and called to the cat, she positioned herself next to a night stand that held one of her cellphones, the filing says. She then reached up and grabbed the phone, and repeatedly hit the lock button in what prosecutors say was an apparent effort to make it harder for investigators to search the phone’s contents.
The agents had to wrest the phone from Ms. Morgan’s hands. Court records provided no further information about the cat."
Do you think she was trying a hard reset or something?
