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Just the fact that they decided to stay with what is essentially a highly technical acronym i.e. GPT, as their major product line says a lot.
by RobertDeNiro 3y ago
Just the fact that they decided to stay with what is essentially a highly technical acronym i.e. GPT, as their major product line says a lot.
- imdsm 3y agoAnd yet in a way I find this refreshing
- falcor84 3y agoI think that's actually crucial in that they want to trademark this otherwise generic term
- Aerbil313 3y agoOmg… Thinking about their push for regulation with this… Are they after something like keeping advanced generative pretrained transformer LLM model technology to themselves, prohibiting others, at least in American economy where regulations can be applied?
- andrewmunsell 3y agoTo be fair, the name "ChatGPT" has quite a bit of mindshare and I've found many non-technical folks referring to any generative AI product as "ChatGPT" or "GPT". Yet, if you asked any single one of them what "GPT" stood for, they'd have no clue.
- JCharante 3y agoTo be fair, I'm a dev who uses chatgpt on an hourly basis and I had no idea what GPT stood for until I googled it just now. I think it's kinda smart to make people strongly associate GPT with OpenAI
- toomuchtodo 3y ago"Generative Pre-trained Transformers" for those who don't want to leave the page.
- teg4n_ 3y agowhy would it be smart? people can advertise their own models as GPT because it’s a generic term and confuse people into thinking it’s an OpenAI thing
- singularity2001 3y agoI've heard all permutations of "GPT" "GPP" "GTP" etc.
- mensetmanusman 3y ago“You down with G P T?”
- xnx 3y agoYeah you know me
- visarga 3y agoIn a bad day GPT is GTP and Bard is Brad
- DonHopkins 3y agoGPT/IP
- fillipvt 3y agoSeveral family members firmly believe GPT stands for Gepeto.
- block_dagger 3y agoI think it might be the ubiquity of the term "GPT" as it relates to OpenAI from a public branding perspective.
- manojlds 3y agoBetter that than do a silly rename ala X.
- shawnc 3y agoI don't recall which interviews I saw it stated in, but I believe Sam said in one or two of his world tour stops, where he stated they deliberately have gone with a technical name instead of a human name to help remind those using it that it's not a person. So I think that coupled with the mindshare (as others have stated) it already holds, makes a lot of sense to stick with it.
- GuB-42 3y agoDoesn't seem like a problem to me. Many brands are acronyms that are meaningless, too technical or arbitrary. Very common for cars for instance, how about a BMW X5 V8 SUV? Plus, "generative pre-trained transformer" sounds futuristic, which seems like a fitting brand image for OpenAI.
- ddmma 3y agoBefore coming into mainstream I was always referring as GTP ..