AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

AI AND ML

Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills

Fears of an AI takeover remain unfounded after Microsoft demonstrated that Copilot can sometimes struggle to remain upright, let alone march over the remnants of humanity.

The copilot.microsoft.com website fell over for an hour and 40 minutes overnight, returning a Cloudflare Error 1016 message when users attempted to chat with the bot.

The outage lasted from 2225 UTC on September 9 until 0005 UTC on September 10.

At around the same time, the Microsoft 365 Copilot team ran a resilience test that had an unintended consequence: some users lost access to Copilot Chat's suggested prompts.

"Users may have been unable to see the suggestion pills after receiving a bot response in Copilot Chat," Microsoft said.

CopilotKit definesa "suggestion pill" as a "suggested prompt shown to the user (typically as...

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