ChatGPT: Oops! Our Systems Are A Bit Busy At the Moment (Error)

Today I attempted to login to ChatGPT and received an error message – and was unable to use the ChatGPT Plus service I’d purchased. OpenAI (ChatGPT) notice: “Oops! Our systems are a bit busy at the moment, please take a break and try again soon.” URL: Chat.OpenAI.com/auth/error?error=RequestTimeout I figured that the platform was probably down …

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ChatGPT Limits: Words, Characters, Tokens

You may have read that GPT-4 can handle up to 25,000 words of text in a prompt (as input), however, this is only true for those who are using the “Extended (32K)” version of GPT-4 independently (not within the ChatGPT interface). On ChatGPT – you’ll have no luck getting GPT-4 to accept a 25,000-word prompt… …

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ChatGPT Message Cap (GPT-4 Usage Limit)

GPT-4 has been available for ChatGPT Plus subscribers since March 14, 2023 – and it’s a significant improvement over GPT-3.5 in quality of output (noticeable improvement in reasoning ability & conciseness). Really the 2 most noteworthy drawbacks associated with GPT-4 at present moment are: (1) speed (it’s slothy compared to GPT-3.5) & (2) usage limits …

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Elon Musk Calls to Pause Advanced AI Experiments (GPT-4 & Beyond)

Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla & Twitter) and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak signed an open letter published by the non-profit Future of Life Institute which calls to “Pause Giant AI Experiments.” (R) Why? The Future of Life Institute and many others believe that AI labs are locked in an “out-of-control race” to create and deploy …

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GPT-4: 2023 March Madness Bracket Predictions (Men’s Basketball)

Out of curiosity, I wanted to test how GPT-4 would perform in predicting the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament (March Madness) compared to my own picks. I don’t watch much college basketball throughout the season, but read that there was substantial parity this year (perhaps more than most years). The differential in talent and/or …

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