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keiferski
on Oct 31, 2024
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It would be a logical name if its customers were technicians familiar with LLMs, and not end businesses and consumers. Which is why Ford wasn't named Internal Combustion Engine, Apple wasn't named Graphics Processing Unit, etc.
currymj
on Oct 31, 2024
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Generative Pretrained Transformer is also a terrible brand name but it doesn’t seem to matter.
keiferski
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Because the name isn't Generative Pretrained Transformer, it's GPT.
staticman2
on Oct 31, 2024
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Perplexity sounds no weirder to me for a tech product than than Google or Yahoo or Apple.
keiferski
on Nov 1, 2024
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Those are all short and easy to say. Very obvious difference between them and a long complicated word like Perplexity.
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