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by j_maffe 654 days ago
GPT is not a brand. A court ruling turned down that notion. It's a technology.
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latexr 654 days ago
That only means it’s not a legally recognised brand, but it is a brand nonetheless if people associate the two (and they do). A bit like the way people associate tissue paper with Kleenex, or photocopies with Xerox, or git with GitHub.
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j_maffe 654 days ago
I wonder if OpenAI will stick with the GPT acronym, given that most people don't know what it's an acronym for and it's a bit of a mouthful.
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albert_e 653 days ago
I doubt many people know the correct full forms of LED, LCD, USB, HDMI, Wi-Fi, HTTP, URL, etc. either
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latexr 651 days ago
> the correct full forms of (…) Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi isn’t like the others on your list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#Etymology_and_terminolog...

> The name Wi-Fi, commercially used at least as early as August 1999, was coined by the brand-consulting firm Interbrand. The Wi-Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'." According to Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the term Wi-Fi was chosen from a list of ten names that Interbrand proposed. (…)

> The name Wi-Fi is not short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity' (…) The name Wi-Fi was partly chosen because it sounds similar to Hi-Fi, which consumers take to mean high fidelity or high quality. Interbrand hoped consumers would find the name catchy, and that they would assume this wireless protocol has high fidelity because of its name.

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