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There 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 ago
The 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 ago
GPT is not a brand. A court ruling turned down that notion. It's a technology.
- latexr 2y ago
  That 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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  - j_maffe 2y ago
    I wonder if OpenAI will stick with the GPT acronym, given that most people don't know what it's an acronym for and it's a bit of a mouthful.
    - albert_e 2y ago
      I doubt many people know the correct full forms of LED, LCD, USB, HDMI, Wi-Fi, HTTP, URL, etc. either
      - latexr 2y ago
        > the correct full forms of (…) Wi-Fi Wi-Fi isn’t like the others on your list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Etymology_and_terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Etymology_and_terminolog... > The name Wi-Fi, commercially used at least as early as August 1999, was coined by the brand-consulting firm Interbrand. The Wi-Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'." According to Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the term Wi-Fi was chosen from a list of ten names that Interbrand proposed. (…) > The name Wi-Fi is not short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity' (…) The name Wi-Fi was partly chosen because it sounds similar to Hi-Fi, which consumers take to mean high fidelity or high quality. Interbrand hoped consumers would find the name catchy, and that they would assume this wireless protocol has high fidelity because of its name.
AlwaysRock 2y ago
And that they launch new models so often that GPT could mean 3.5, 4, 4o mini, or 4, just to name the ones I know off the top of my head.

ChadNauseam 2y ago

The 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 ago

GPT is not a brand. A court ruling turned down that notion. It's a technology.

latexr 2y ago
That 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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- j_maffe 2y ago
  I wonder if OpenAI will stick with the GPT acronym, given that most people don't know what it's an acronym for and it's a bit of a mouthful.
  - albert_e 2y ago
    I doubt many people know the correct full forms of LED, LCD, USB, HDMI, Wi-Fi, HTTP, URL, etc. either
    - latexr 2y ago
      > the correct full forms of (…) Wi-Fi Wi-Fi isn’t like the others on your list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Etymology_and_terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Etymology_and_terminolog... > The name Wi-Fi, commercially used at least as early as August 1999, was coined by the brand-consulting firm Interbrand. The Wi-Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'." According to Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the term Wi-Fi was chosen from a list of ten names that Interbrand proposed. (…) > The name Wi-Fi is not short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity' (…) The name Wi-Fi was partly chosen because it sounds similar to Hi-Fi, which consumers take to mean high fidelity or high quality. Interbrand hoped consumers would find the name catchy, and that they would assume this wireless protocol has high fidelity because of its name.

AlwaysRock 2y ago

And that they launch new models so often that GPT could mean 3.5, 4, 4o mini, or 4, just to name the ones I know off the top of my head.