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Should the title say ChatGPT or gpt-4 (the model) instead of OpenAI (the company)?
by albert_e 2y ago
Should the title say ChatGPT or gpt-4 (the model) instead of OpenAI (the company)?
- johnisgood 2y agoI think it should not say the name of the company, but either ChatGPT or GPT-x.
- punkpeye 2y agoIt would have been a better title, yes.
- ubj 2y agoI agree, this would make the title more accurate.
- cbm-vic-20 2y agoI left my Kleenex next to the Xerox.
- taneq 2y agoBetter Hoover it up!
- dubcanada 2y agoAll jokes aside, I've never heard anyone call vacuuming hoover. I wonder if that was a older statement?
- justneedaname 2y agoIn the UK it's very common
- bdsa 2y agoMore common in the UK
- commodoreboxer 2y agoI have, but only as an idiom, never literally. E.g. "Microsoft just keeps hoovering up companies", but the literal act of vacuuming is only called vacuuming.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI've also never heard anyone call photocopying "xeroxing". I'm guessing maybe it's an age thing.
- latexr 2y agoIt depends on the region. In certain countries Gillette is used for any shaving razor.
- albert_e 2y agogrowing up in India over past 4 decades .. 'Xerox' was/is the default and most common word used for photocopying ... only recently have I started using/hearing the term 'photocopy'. every town and every street had "XEROX shops" where people went to get various documents photocopied for INR 1 per page for example Most photocopy centers are still called XEROX Shops -- and their boards say that in big bold text: https://www.google.com/search?q=xerox+shop+india&udm=2 https://www.google.com/search?q=xerox+shop+india&udm=2 It doesnt matter if they use Canon, HP, or other brands of machines
- taneq 2y agoIt was the fashion at the time, even if the hoover did keep bumping the onion. (This is actually really interesting, I had no idea that 'hoover' was specifically a U.K. thing that didn't make it to the U.S.)
- dmd 2y agoEveryone I know from the UK says "hoovering" 100% of the time instead of vacuuming.
- joseda-hg 2y agoIt might just be a regionalism, it's not uncommon that such genericization only applies to specific dialects (Like calling all sodas coke)
- BeetleB 2y agoI got hurt doing it so applied some Bandaids.
- Stratoscope 2y agoDon't say Velcro! https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=don't+say+velcro https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=don't+say+velcr... (Content warning: profanity. This search page is SFW, but the videos it links to may not be.)
- dantondwa 2y agoThere is a certain justice in the use of OpenAI as a name for their product, given that OpenAI has turned the generic technical GPT name into a brand.
- ChadNauseam 2y agoThe generative pretrained transformer was invented by OpenAI, and it seems reasonable for a company to use the name it gave to its invention in its branding. Of course, they didn't invent Generative pretraining (GP) or transfomers (T) but AFAIK they were the first to publicly combine them
- j_maffe 2y agoGPT is not a brand. A court ruling turned down that notion. It's a technology.
- latexr 2y agoThat only means it’s not a legally recognised brand, but it is a brand nonetheless if people associate the two (and they do). A bit like the way people associate tissue paper with Kleenex, or photocopies with Xerox, or git with GitHub.
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- whimsicalism 2y agomore likely to get downvotes that way, potentially even downweighted