Re:Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API
by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @01:04PM
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> Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI.
But...are we? There's a reason that many enterprises that need reliability aren't doing that, but instead...
> It took years before most companies who now use cloud providers to trust and be willing to bet their operations on them. That gave the cloud providers time to make their systems more robust, and to learn how to resolve issues quickly.
...to the extent that they are building dependencies on hosted AI services, doing it with traditional cloud providers hosted solutions, not first party hosting by AI development firms that aren't general enterprise cloud providers (e.g., for OpenAI models, using Azure OpenAI rather than OpenAI directly, for a bunch of others, AWS Bedrock.)
But...are we? There's a reason that many enterprises that need reliability aren't doing that, but instead...
> It took years before most companies who now use cloud providers to trust and be willing to bet their operations on them. That gave the cloud providers time to make their systems more robust, and to learn how to resolve issues quickly.
...to the extent that they are building dependencies on hosted AI services, doing it with traditional cloud providers hosted solutions, not first party hosting by AI development firms that aren't general enterprise cloud providers (e.g., for OpenAI models, using Azure OpenAI rather than OpenAI directly, for a bunch of others, AWS Bedrock.)