This is cool but the name sounds like something a high schooler would put on their resume as their first solo project
Actually, I think that OpenAI’s naming strategy is excellent from the marketing perspective. If you don’t pay close attention to these things, then GPT and ChatGPT are practically synonyms. Just like for most normies “windows” means “Microsoft Windows”, so does “GPT” mean “ChatGPT”.
To compare, I’d like to tell people around me about Claude, but I am not even sure how to pronounce it, and they wouldn’t be sure how to write it anyway. Marketing is not about trying to impress a few intellectuals with a clever pun, but about making yourself the default option in the minds of the uneducated masses.
It worries me sometimes that when I say “Claude” it sounds basically indistinguishable from “clod” (aka an insulting term for a dumb and/or uneducated person). I like that they gave it a human name, but why that one?
Actually, I think that OpenAI’s naming strategy is excellent from the marketing perspective. If you don’t pay close attention to these things, then GPT and ChatGPT are practically synonyms. Just like for most normies “windows” means “Microsoft Windows”, so does “GPT” mean “ChatGPT”.
To compare, I’d like to tell people around me about Claude, but I am not even sure how to pronounce it, and they wouldn’t be sure how to write it anyway. Marketing is not about trying to impress a few intellectuals with a clever pun, but about making yourself the default option in the minds of the uneducated masses.
It worries me sometimes that when I say “Claude” it sounds basically indistinguishable from “clod” (aka an insulting term for a dumb and/or uneducated person). I like that they gave it a human name, but why that one?
Everyone assumes that it was named after Claude Shannon, but it appears they’ve never actually confirmed that.
See also: Cot–caught merger