If imposter syndrome ever made you doubt your creative abilities, this should put it to rest.
Naming OpenAI
November 23, 2015
Back in November 2015, just weeks before OpenAI's public launch, cofounders traded emails testing out names meant to signal open access to advanced AI, with Elon Musk pitching Freemind as a philosophical alternative to DeepMind's approach and Sam Altman floating Axon while noting risks of sounding too much like existing tech brands.
If imposter syndrome ever made you doubt your creative abilities, this should put it to rest.
Naming OpenAI
November 23, 2015
Musk described Freemind as conveying freely available digital intelligence and called it the least bad option considered, while the thread noted that strong names could help attract talent even if most suggestions felt awkward at first.
The resurfaced threads capture initial brainstorming among Musk, Altman and others but leave the precise path to choosing OpenAI unclear, with no new details on domain checks or later input from additional cofounders.
Many users criticized OpenAI's 2015 name ideas like AI Summer as atrocious or unfit for anything but cheap products, while others expressed relief the worst options were rejected or praised alternatives such as Difference Engine.
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Interesting thread. on naming OpenAI.
Naming OpenAI
November 23, 2015
We could have had AI Summer all the time
Naming OpenAI
November 23, 2015
keep AI Summer safe!
Naming OpenAI
November 23, 2015

@deliprao Difference Engine is pretty good, surprised no one has taken it.

@deliprao They called their world changing model ChatGPT

@jjh Hi Babbage
@binarybits @matt_beard_ @TechEmails Great minds!
@matt_beard_ @TechEmails Haha credit for my podcast name goes to @labenz, who mentioned on an early episode that AI Summer was one of the names he considered for what became the Cognitive Revolution.

@rohanpaul_ai These are ok names for cheap gender neutral fragrances or really terrible sci-fi novels you’d find at goodwill

@deliprao I want to understand what Greg Brockman does

@Hong60282445 😀

@deliprao 别自我怀疑了 你就是自己最好的证明

@livgorton "No worries if you think they're all bad :)" is what I'd type right before having a lot of worries if someone thinks they're bad

@omooretweets ai winter ended, nobody told the gpus

@rohanpaul_ai AI Summer 🤔

@rohanpaul_ai the honest answer is that corporate identity guidelines still can't capture the nuance of what we're building with ai agents

@deliprao Ai summer?

@rohanpaul_ai thank god they didn’t do the last 2

@DanielleFong Pelo sim pelo nao.. nao vou responder... Mas manipulada...creio qie continuas. Ou nao
Nao sei
Nao é facil. Porque estamos todos inconscientes. E ligados ao indireto. Mas se voltarmos à consciencia. Isto se torna apenas um texto sem 2 interpretações. (Este nao porque tem morse)

@omooretweets because the hard part was understanding what to optimize for, not just how fast

@deliprao the only thing imposter syndrome doubts is your ability to innovate not your talent