alt Hacker NewsI mean, how is it any worse than 'google'?
chatgpt is generic (as in, no prior meaning attached, except for the few people in the world who understand what GPT stands for). It's simple - even a non-english speaker can say it easily, and doesn't require one to be native to know how to pronounce it (this is a difficult concept for a native english speaker to grok).
These features makes for a good name.
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simonw • today at 4:45 AM
"Google" at least doesn't have an acronym for "Generative pre-trained transformer" baked into it.
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foo42 • today at 8:11 AM
while we're talking pronunciation I'm on an (entirely pointless) one man mission to have "lemon" stick as a pronunciation of "LLM".
wiredpancake • today at 5:00 AM
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It's very weird to pronounce it as a French. Either you pronounce it like in English with a thick French accent like "tchat' djee-pee-tee" or like in French as "tchat' jay-pey-tey" which sounds exactly like "I farted". This is really a terrible name in French.