Comedian Trevor Noah questioned Altman about their surprise dislike for the name of their wildly successful wide language model, ChatGPT, in a recent podcast “What Now?” interview.
Since its November 2022 introduction, OpenAI’s big language model ChatGPT has come to be associated with generative artificial intelligence. Despite its success, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, objects to the term.
Comedian Trevor Noah questioned Altman about their surprise dislike for the name of their wildly successful wide language model, ChatGPT, in a recent podcast “What Now?” interview. Despite ChatGPT’s rapid user growth and widespread recognition, Altman admitted that the name is awful. Marketers would never choose it, period.”
In little more than a year, Altman has established ChatGPT and AI as household names. He clarified that the term “ChatGPT” was unoriginal and did not adequately convey the possibilities of the technology. He bemoaned even more the challenge of rebranding a product with such widespread recognition. Altman said, “It’s a terrible name, but it might be too common to ever change.”
Despite Altman’s misgivings, ChatGPT has had incredible success since launching in November 2022, quickly gaining 100 million active monthly users.
Nearly every significant tech firm has started working on creating AI chatbots as a result of the increased interest in AI, as seen by ChatGPT.
But the term “ChatGPT,” which combines the terms “Chat” and “GPT” (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), can limit one’s comprehension of the tool’s broad features.