Artificial intelligence is absolutely valid. So much so, that it is rare to see the day that this technology, supposedly called to change the world, does not grab several headlines in all the newspapers. Therefore, it is natural that people, even those less versed in computing, have heard about it and its most popular tools, such as ChatGPT.
However, there are specific aspects of the service created by OpenAI and Sam Altman that are not completely known, even though they are there, before the eyes of users. For example, What does ChatGPT’s “GPT” mean? What types of GPT exist and what are their differences? Let’s see it.
What is the meaning of GPT and why that name
ChatGPT has become a very popular tool. Everyone seems to talk about her constantly. But perhaps not everyone has stopped to think what exactly its name means.
That “GPT” means “Generative Pre-trained Transformer”, which in Spanish would translate more or less as “Generative Pre-trained Transformer”. Which gives clues to how exactly this model works.
Going into detail, “Generative” would basically refer to the model’s ability to generate texts and content based on the questions or questions that each user asks it, thus adapting to different types of conversations. “Pre-trained”, on the other hand , would refer to the fact that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence has been pre-trained with data.
Until then, nothing that is not difficult to understand about the name ChatGPT. The least logical, so to speak, is “Transformer.” But although this word has the name of a cartoon robot, in reality it also has its logic, and it is rather what gives meaning to all of the above.
“Transformer” is the type of neural network architecture used by ChatGPT, which relies on attention mechanisms to process sequences of data.. Or what is the same: it allows data sequences to be processed using attention mechanisms, which in turn makes ChatGPT capture complex relationships and perform common tasks such as automatic translation and text generation.
What types of GPT exist?
Beyond the meaning of ChatGPT’s GPT, people often understand this tool as something unique, but in reality it is not entirely like that. Not only have there been different versions of it, have gone since GPT-1 (the first model created by OpenAI and the basis of everything) to the latest GPT-4. But there are also others, like GPT-Neo (created as open source).
What there is no doubt is that despite how uncommercial ChatGPT may sound a priori, not only has it become a truly well-known name, but no matter how much artificial intelligence advances (which it will) in the future, , its acronym will always be associated with AI by the vast majority of people. That’s why it doesn’t hurt to know its exact meaning either.
