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Does Kleenex? I’ve heard plenty of people call any chatbot “chat gpt” - it’s becoming a genericized household name.
by mock-possum 2y ago
Does Kleenex?
I’ve heard plenty of people call any chatbot “chat gpt” - it’s becoming a genericized household name.
- aksss 2y agoWhat’s the killer 2-syllable word (google, Kleenex)?? ChatGPT is a mouthful. Even copilot rolls off the tongue easier though doesn’t have the mindshare obviously. Generic gpt would be better but you end up saying gpt-style tool, which is worse.
- sorenjan 2y agoI think it shows really well how OpenAI was caught off guard when Chat GPT got popular and proved to be unexpectedly useful for a lot of people. They just gave it a technical name for what it was, a Generative Pre-trained Transformer model that was fine tuned for chat style interaction. If they had any plans on making a product close to what it is today they would have given it a catchier name. And now they're kind of stuck with it.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoI agree but otoh it distinguishes itself as a new product class better than if they had gave it a name like Siri, Alexa, Gemini, Jeeves
- Fuzzwah 2y agoYou're not saying 'gippity' yet?
- dgfitz 2y agoI feel like you should trademark that.
- WorldPeas 2y agothe less savvy around me simply call it "chat" and it's understood by context
- jazzyjackson 2y ago"I asked the robot"
- AlwaysRock 2y agoWell they cant come up with version names that stand out in any way so I dont expect them to give their core product a better name anytime soon. I wish they would spend a little time this, but i guess they are too busy building?
- insane_dreamer 2y agomy 8 year old knows what ChatGPT is but has never heard of any other LLM (or OpenAI for that matter). They're all "chatGPT" in the same way that refers to searching the internet as "googling" (and is unaware of Bing, DDG or any other search engine).
- CPLX 2y agoIf you invested in Kleenex at OpenAI valuations you would lose nearly all your money quite quickly.