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Ask HN: ChatGPT is a terrible product name. What would you have named it?
- andrewstuart 3y agoI’d have called it “Mother”. Or “Intuition”.
- robofanatic 3y agoName doesn’t matter if the product is good. Another one comes to mind is Craigslist
- skilled 3y agoI'd probably have gone with GPTChat which is objectively the best name they could have gone with.
- genezeta 3y agoGeppetto. Or, if you need to, Chat Geppetto.
- rvz 3y agoYet hundreds of millions of users still use it. I can mention 'ChatGPT' to anyone on the street and they instantly know what it is. Same with 'Siri' and 'Alexa'. A great example of terrible product name(s) are Element, Mastodon and even Bluesky.
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- uraura 3y agoClippy
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoJeeves! Oh, taken. Then, Elliot!
- iExploder 3y agoIll never understand the missed opportunity to call this product Allied Mastercomputer
- Someone1234 3y agoCan you clarify why it is a "terrible product name?" Frankly I'm tired of these un-google-able cutesy names that aren't unique. If you want some examples look at the other suggestions in this thread (Jeeves, Mother, Intuition). ChatGPT is only exactly one thing, and you "chat" with it, that's good enough to me. "Bard" is alright but harder to uniquely google, and Bing's ChatGPT implementation is the terrible since I cannot even figure out what the name is ("Bing AI?").
- n3m4c 3y agoBob
- _boffin_ 3y agoAka the perfect product name.
- seydor 3y agoGoogle because it sounds like music to my ears. Or yahoo. Or airbee-n-bee.
- lisasays 3y agoTerrible for marketing. But perfectly suitable to such a dorky product.
- 3000 3y agoskynet
- user7878 3y agoNeuron