Why did OpenAI call their new AI ChatGPT instead of GPTChat?
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Ṁ380Ṁ42resolved Dec 24
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Because it emphasizes the chat aspect of the tool, as opposed to the "GPT" aspect.
8%20%
For parallel to the name of its sibling model, InstructGPT
8%12%
"OpenAI is consistently terrible at names": https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1598701354754588672
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13%
They did market research (poll/focus group/etc.) and found ChatGPT performed better among consumers
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Because they want to antropomorphize GPT and that way it looks like you can "chat with GPT"
The latter formulation sounds better to me. Why did the pick the former? If there's no official verified response by close, I'll resolve to the hypothesis I find most compelling.
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