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by andrewmunsell 951 days ago
To be fair, the name "ChatGPT" has quite a bit of mindshare and I've found many non-technical folks referring to any generative AI product as "ChatGPT" or "GPT". Yet, if you asked any single one of them what "GPT" stood for, they'd have no clue.
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To be fair, I'm a dev who uses chatgpt on an hourly basis and I had no idea what GPT stood for until I googled it just now. I think it's kinda smart to make people strongly associate GPT with OpenAI
"Generative Pre-trained Transformers" for those who don't want to leave the page.
why would it be smart? people can advertise their own models as GPT because it’s a generic term and confuse people into thinking it’s an OpenAI thing
I've heard all permutations of "GPT" "GPP" "GTP" etc.
GPT/IP
“You down with G P T?”
Yeah you know me
In a bad day GPT is GTP and Bard is Brad
Several family members firmly believe GPT stands for Gepeto.