[LrnByTeach]

Why Google named ChatGPT competitor as “Apprentice Bard”?

Here's my take.

"Apprentice is Barred from this AI race" is the phrase.

"You (OpenAI) Apprentice are Barred from this AI race, because, well you are just an apprentice"

To counter Sun Microsystems' dominance in the Java market, IBM named its IDE as "Eclipse."( blocking Sun).

PS: To be clear, that is not my personal opinion of OpenAI, I believe OpenAI brought so much innovation to this LLM space.

Just sharing what came into my head, why Google picked that name.

[adrianmonk]

I don't know, but I assumed Apprentice Bard was the name for the internal testing version, and that the name for the released version will just be Bard.

In other words, "apprentice" is just a cutesy variation on "beta", "testing", "pre-release", etc.

[joxel]

I figured it had to do with Bard like the D&D class, ministrels that have a way with words etc.

[LrnByTeach]

Thanks for that correction.

my bad ,I would have googled and checked it. yes, it seems this is named related to Bard like the D&D class