MOSS crashes hours after launch: A team from China’s Fudan University apologized on Tuesday after the ChatGPT-like chatbot platform they created failed owing to an unexpected spike in traffic hours after it was made available to the public.
The team’s unveiling of the platform they termed MOSS on Monday immediately went viral on Chinese social media, resulting in tens of millions of hits on China’s Weibo, which is a social media site akin to Twitter. It was referred to be the first Chinese competitor to OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT platform by official media.
But shortly after, MOSS failed, and by Tuesday the team announced it would no longer be accessible to the general public. MOSS shares its name with a superintelligent quantum computer in the Chinese science fiction film “Wandering Earth 2.”
As several of China’s top universities and tech companies compete to create a Chinese version of the Microsoft-backed chatbot, the launch of MOSS and the response it received from the general public highlight the fervour for generative AI and ChatGPT in China as well as the difficulties its domestic industry faces.
The Fudan University team initially referred to MOSS as a conversational language model similar to ChatGPT on Monday, but on Tuesday they downplayed the comparison and said they still had a lot to work on.
“The MOSS paradigm is still in its infancy and has a long way to go before attaining ChatGPT. “We cannot produce a model with capabilities close to ChatGPT in our academic research lab,” states the website.
Our sincere apologies to everyone for the negative experience and first impression we have caused. “Our computing resources were not enough to support such enormous traffic and as an academic group we do not have appropriate engineering knowledge.”
ChatGPT Crashes Due to High Traffic Despite MOSS Chatbot’s English Dominance.
The fastest-growing consumer application in history, ChatGPT, has also had numerous crashes as a result of high traffic.
A journalist from the Shanghai Observer gave a thorough account of a conversation with MOSS and noted that the chatbot’s English was better than its Chinese, despite the fact that few users had the opportunity to share their experiences with the platform prior to the crash.
The principal difference between MOSS and ChatGPT, according to the team’s leader Qiu Xipeng, a professor at Fudan’s School of Computer Science, was that MOSS used a lot less parameters for language training than ChatGPT.
An inquiry for additional comments elicited no response from Qiu right away.