{"id":944109,"date":"2025-07-05T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944109"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:15:01","slug":"how-chatgpt-got-its-name-the-late-night-discussion-and-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/how-chatgpt-got-its-name-the-late-night-discussion-and-what-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"How ChatGPT got its name: The \u2018late-night discussion\u2019 and what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT, now widely recognised by many as the chatbot that kicked off the generative AI boom, almost had a very different name. According to OpenAI executives, it was a \u201clate-night decision\u201d just before its viral 2022 launch that led the Microsoft-backed company to simplify its chatbot&#8217;s moniker from the difficult \u201cChat with GPT-3.5\u201d to the now-iconic \u201cChatGPT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a recent OpenAI podcast, Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, and Mark Chen, research chief, shared insights into the crucial days leading up to the chatbot&#8217;s public launch. Turley revealed that the decision to rename the product was made just the day before its late 2022 launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT, now widely recognised by many as the chatbot that kicked off the generative AI boom, almost had a very different name. According to OpenAI executives, it was a \u201clate-night decision\u201d just before its viral 2022 launch that led the Microsoft-backed company to simplify its chatbot&#8217;s moniker from the difficult \u201cChat with GPT-3.5\u201d to the now-iconic \u201cChatGPT.\u201d On a recent OpenAI podcast, Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, and Mark Chen, research chief, shared insights into the crucial days leading up to the chatbot&#8217;s public launch. Turley revealed that the decision to rename the product was made just the day before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}