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OpenAI has stumbled at every step apart from "make something really good that people like." DALL-E access was over-controlled and they lost a lot of mindshare t
by madrox 3y ago
OpenAI has stumbled at every step apart from "make something really good that people like." DALL-E access was over-controlled and they lost a lot of mindshare to competitors. In the case of ChatGPT, I doubt they even thought about what they would call this thing before releasing it.
Of course it's inevitable they'd try to trademark this now, but it's clear all of this is an afterthought. It really leaves me feeling like OpenAI doesn't know what they're doing outside of making really good AI.
- gkoberger 3y agoThis is... well, this is one take. ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time, and almost everyone in the US knows what it is. It's absolutely dominating people's mindshare.
- dougb5 3y agoChatGPT follows the naming convention established by InstructGPT and WebGPT -- it's a model fine-tuned on human preferences for good chat outcomes. The name doesn't roll off the tongue, but then, neither does "Airbnb" and that's a verb now :) By their own admission they were quite surprised ChatGPT caught on as much as it did; I don't think they were expecting it to be a huge consumer product as much as a modest "research preview", hence the researchy name.