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Discussed last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894403 (Mostly arguing about the authors' choice of
by qup 3y ago
Discussed last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894403
(Mostly arguing about the authors' choice of title)
- swyx 3y ago[flagged]
- minimaxir 3y agoIt's a necessary marketing tactic lately to surface AI projects above the bullshit hype. The AI space hypesters who do podcasts and speak at conferences do not care about cringe. The real deterrent to adding GPT to a project name is a cease-and-desist from OpenAI.
- cosmojg 3y agoI mean, if they're building on top of what is commonly understood as a generative pre-trained transformer model[1], then that just seems accurate? Although, I do agree that it's pretty cringe when they do it purely as a deceptive marketing tactic rather than to communicate meaningful information. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transformer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_trans...
- mcbuilder 3y ago"GPT" refers to decoder only transformer models sampled "generatively". It's a technical term for a class of LLMs. Not cringe at all.
- littlestymaar 3y agoIt may be cringe, but at the same time it undermines the ability for OpenAI to enforce its trademark, which means the “GPT” word will remain in the public domain, so it's not entirely useless at least ;).
- dang 3y agoOK, I've merged the comments from that thread which were not arguing about the title into this thread.