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Bard is such a funny name. I tried to, no pun intended, google it and it autocorrected to brad.

by whalesalad 4y ago

aftergibson 4y ago
Should've named it brad.
bradleykingz 4y ago
A bard is something along the lines of a "poet" or "musician". More concisely, it's someone that's good with words.
unity1001 4y ago
Its a nice name but also a bit grandiose. They would need to make the final product good enough to back up the grandoiose name that they chose.
duckmysick 4y ago
I don't know what to think of it, but I saw it in a comment on Hacker News by raesene9 three days ago: > The way I've come to look at ChatGPT is via a D&D analogy. > It's like a helpful Bard with 1 rank in all the knowledge skills and a good bluff roll. > It'll give you good answers to a lot of basic queries, but if it doesn't know, it'll just make up something and provide that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642666
sytelus 4y ago
Definitely not a good name. The first similar word that came into mind was "lard" and then "retard". Also, looks like they will release smaller model to save on compute. This doesn't look like a good strategy. They need to come out solid and strong over competition, not watered down.
GrantS 4y ago
Possibly a reference to the 1956 Isaac Asimov short story "Someday": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) "The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire..."
- TillE 4y ago
  If you name something Bard, it's at least partly a reference to Shakespeare. Also known as The Bard. What are Shakespeare's works best known for? Language.

Bard is such a funny name. I tried to, no pun intended, google it and it autocorrected to brad.

aftergibson 4y ago

Should've named it brad.

bradleykingz 4y ago

A bard is something along the lines of a "poet" or "musician". More concisely, it's someone that's good with words.

unity1001 4y ago

Its a nice name but also a bit grandiose. They would need to make the final product good enough to back up the grandoiose name that they chose.

duckmysick 4y ago

I don't know what to think of it, but I saw it in a comment on Hacker News by raesene9 three days ago: > The way I've come to look at ChatGPT is via a D&D analogy. > It's like a helpful Bard with 1 rank in all the knowledge skills and a good bluff roll. > It'll give you good answers to a lot of basic queries, but if it doesn't know, it'll just make up something and provide that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642666

sytelus 4y ago

Definitely not a good name. The first similar word that came into mind was "lard" and then "retard". Also, looks like they will release smaller model to save on compute. This doesn't look like a good strategy. They need to come out solid and strong over competition, not watered down.

GrantS 4y ago

Possibly a reference to the 1956 Isaac Asimov short story "Someday": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) "The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire..."

TillE 4y ago
If you name something Bard, it's at least partly a reference to Shakespeare. Also known as The Bard. What are Shakespeare's works best known for? Language.