If the model is for technical stuff, then call it the technical model. How is anyone supposed to know what these model names mean?
The only page of theirs attempting to explain this is a total disaster. https://platform.openai.com/docs/models
Normies don't have to know - ChatGPT app focuses UX around capabilities and automatically picks the appropriate model for capabilities requested; you can see which model you're using and change it, but don't need to.
As for the techies and self-proclaimed "AI experts" - OpenAI is the leader in the field, and one of the most well-known and talked about tech companies in history. Whether to use, praise or criticize, this group of users is motivated to figure it out on their own.
It's the privilege of fashionable companies. They could name the next model ↂ-↊↋, and it'll take all of five minutes for everyone in tech (and everyone on LinkedIn) to learn how to type in the right Unicode characters.
EDIT: Originally I wrote \Omega-↊↋, but apparently HN's Unicode filter extends to Greek alphabet now? 'dang?
Who said this is not intentional? It seems to work well given that people are hyped every time there's a release, no matter how big the actual improvements are — I'm pretty sure "o3-mini" works better for that purpose than "GPT 4.1.3"
Why would the marketing team of all people call it GPT 4.1.3?
Watch this space.
A marketing team isn’t a generality that makes a company known, it often focuses on communicating what products different types of customers need from your lineup.
If I sell three medications:
Steve
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Priximetrin
And only tell you they are all pain killers but for different types and levels of pain I’m going to leave revenue on the floor. That is no matter how valuable my business is or how well it’s known.
Ask one of their models for advice. :-)
PETERSON Oh say, Tackaberry, did you get my memo?
TACKABERRY What memo?
PETERSON My memo about memos. We're sending out too many memos and it's got to stop!
TACKABERRY All right. I'll send out a memo.
...I like "DALL·E" and "Whisper" as names a lot, though, FWIW :p
You use words as labels so that we use our pre existing knowledge of the word to derive meaning from the label.
It's actually the reason LLMs work in the first place.
No one's going to let an LLM near anything important until then.