In addition to the outage, ChatGPT was stripped of its title as the fastest growing app in history, replaced by Threads. The meeting in Washington, known as the AI Insight Forum, included industry leaders such as Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jensen Huang. Despite previous calls for AI regulation, Altman's sincerity is questioned after he criticized the EU for implementing such regulations.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, experienced its second major outage in as many weeks on a Wednesday morning, coinciding with a meeting of big tech executives in Washington to discuss the future of AI.
- The outage, which was described as "elevated error rates and increased latency," took nearly two hours to resolve, and it's the latest in a series of outages that have been occurring more frequently.
- ChatGPT has been losing users for the past three months and was recently dethroned by Threads as the fastest growing app in history.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in attendance at the AI Insight Forum in Washington, along with other tech industry leaders, where he expressed the importance of getting AI regulation right.