ChatGPT, the wildly popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) interface, went offline for several hours Tuesday, answering users' questions with nonsense sentences. OpenAI, the start-up that launched the program at the end of 2022, indicated Wednesday morning on its site that ChatGPT was operating “normally” again.
Many users have uploaded screenshots showing erratic or incomprehensible responses from the generative AI model. This reminds us that AI, even generative, has no awareness or understanding of what it “says”