Possibly a reference to the 1956 Isaac Asimov short story "Someday": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story)

"The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire..."

A bard is something along the lines of a "poet" or "musician".

More concisely, it's someone that's good with words.

I don't know what to think of it, but I saw it in a comment on Hacker News by raesene9 three days ago:

> The way I've come to look at ChatGPT is via a D&D analogy.

> It's like a helpful Bard with 1 rank in all the knowledge skills and a good bluff roll.

> It'll give you good answers to a lot of basic queries, but if it doesn't know, it'll just make up something and provide that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642666

Its a nice name but also a bit grandiose. They would need to make the final product good enough to back up the grandoiose name that they chose.

Definitely not a good name. The first similar word that came into mind was "lard" and then "retard". Also, looks like they will release smaller model to save on compute. This doesn't look like a good strategy. They need to come out solid and strong over competition, not watered down.

Should've named it brad.