ChatGPT has become a staple for many people across the globe. People are using the AI chatbot to have conversations, brainstorm ideas, organize and so much more. For this reason, when such a service goes down even for a few hours, it creates unrest amongst the small part of the population that extensively uses it. At the time of writing this article, ChatGPT is down, facing a major outage as reported by OpenAI‘s ChatGPT status page.
Users are having to rely on less popular chatbots, such as Google Bard
When a prompt is fed into ChatGPT, it refuses to generate a response, stating that “Something went wrong. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com.” Upon further inspection, it’s clear that OpenAI is either updating their servers for ChatGPT and other AI-centric services such as Dall.E and Bing Search, or the downtime may be because of a technical error that is currently being investigated. Worst comes to worst, the company’s servers may be facing a coordinated attack of some sort. In such a case, the downtime might be slightly higher than expected.

The company says that the issue is currently being investigated, and after changing the outage status from ‘Partial’ to ‘Major’, more resources should be allocated towards bringing ChatGPT back up online. The partial outage started around 5:54 a.m. PST, followed by a ‘major’ outage at 6:02 a.m. PST. Users can subscribe to text/email updates to get notified when ChatGPT is back up online. Until then, they can rely on other AI chatbots, for instance, Google‘s Bard for their needs.
UPDATE:
As of 6:50 a.m. PST, OpenAI states that they have identified an issue resulting in high error rates across the API and ChatGPT, and they are working on remediation. More updates will be available here soon.
UPDATE 2:
OpenAI has fixed the issue impacting ChatGPT. Here’s the official update from the company.
“Between 5:42AM – 7:16AM PT we saw errors impacting all services. We identified the problem and implemented a fix. We are now seeing normal responses from our services.”

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YouTube generative AI will soon let you have a conversation about video you’ve just watched
In a move to enhance user engagement and improve content comprehension, YouTube is testing two new AI-powered features: comment topics and a conversational AI tool. These features are currently in an experimental phase and are available to a limited number of YouTube Premium members.
The comment topics tool aims to make navigating lengthy comment sections easier for both viewers and creators. By utilizing AI, YouTube automatically identifies and organizes comments into relevant themes or topics. This allows viewers to quickly locate specific discussions, while creators can effortlessly engage with their audience on specific aspects of their content.
Creators have the option to remove comment topics by deleting individual comments associated with that topic. Additionally, comment topics are only generated for published comments, excluding blocked or under review comments. Currently, comment topics are limited to a select few English-language videos with extensive comment sections.
YouTube’s conversational AI tool takes viewer engagement a step further by providing real-time interactions during video playback. Viewers can ask questions about the video, receive recommendations for related content, and even take quizzes to enhance their understanding of educational videos.
This feature seamlessly integrates into the viewing experience without disrupting the video playback. The conversational AI tool utilizes natural language processing to understand user queries and provide accurate, relevant responses.
As these features continue to undergo testing and development, it will be interesting to observe how they impact user engagement, content consumption patterns, and the overall YouTube ecosystem.
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