We knew this was coming, but now it’s official.

54 points

I was curious as to what this implies, so I did some quick/superficial googling. The page in the OP has a Yes next to Intent To Use - this appears to mean they have a good faith intention to make commercial use of the trademark within the next 6 months. If for whatever reason they could not make use of it within that time, they can file extension requests indicating good cause for being unable to do so, for six months at a time, up to 5 times. So, OpenAI ostensibly intends to make available a commercial product named GPT5 within the next 6 months (or up to 36 if there are unforeseen delays). So, probably before mid-january.

I welcome corrections from people with actual knowledge, I just did some quick googling because I was curious and thought I might as well share what I found.

permalink
report
reply
10 points

I wonder what the historical timing was between filings for GPT 3 and 4 and their public announcement/release.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

Great brief but to the point explanation, thanks.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

if they fail to provide significant upgrade they can always half ass and provide incremental upgrade and call it a day

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

“We meant GPT-S!”

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Their official statement was, that now the GPT versions will only improve in small steps, and no really big releases at a time. This would mean, that they only saved the trademark for later use, so that no one else gets it. But, while this was an official statement, OpenAI is still a company, so they might have made this statement just to appease their competitors.

My guess based on those statements is, that GPT-5 releases around mid of next year, but we’ll see.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
parent
reply
25 points

I’m surprised they haven’t registered trademarks for GPTs 5…100.

permalink
report
reply
9 points

Don’t you have to be using it? Or at least plan to in the near future? Or else people would just register trademarks for everything just to squat on them and sell them at a premium later on.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Is that legal? Can someone just make a knockoff even non functional app that is called chatgpt-6. Squat on that until openai buys it from them?

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

They should just TM GPT

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, which is just a class of ML architecture. That’d be like trying to TM Web Browser.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Fair point. Probably you’re right. I was mostly thinking about cybersquatters, but that’s obviously different.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
reply
-10 points

May it fail and may they be forced to close their doors due to bankruptcy. Fuck the congressional dick sucking Sam Altman and fuck open AI.

permalink
report
reply
7 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Open AI?

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

I guess that would explain your reaction…

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Sam Altman fucked my wife!!!

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


Community stats

  • 18K

    Monthly active users

  • 11K

    Posts

  • 507K

    Comments