ChatGPT was first mover and has the non-engineering AI chat market. My teen kids say ‘Chat’ to refer to all of AI, and they mean ChatGPT. The rest might as well not exist to them.
Claude has done amazingly well in the SWE domain, because it’s often the best user experience. But most of the world is not HN.
I think we're all in a bit of an echo chamber. Our job is to keep up with this stuff, and we work with people who are ALSO keeping up with this stuff.
To my friends (mechanics, CPAs, musicians, police officers), girlfriend (RN), and other people in my personal life... it's ChatGPT. (It's a neat tool to generate funny pictures or ask a question).
Now that I think about it, I have NEVER heard anyone mention Anthropic / Claude outside of work.
"Chat" refers to twitch streamers talking to their audiences. I'm sure some people have confused it with AI but that's not the original meaning.
And by "engineering" you mean writing code, then yes, but I am an EE and to the extent that anyone of my colleagues uses AI, which many don't, I haven't seen that Claude is dominant.
‘Chat’ has meant many things back at least to IRC in the late 80s.
I assure you my young adult kids and their friends mean uniquely ChatGPT in the AI context. And whenever used as a proper noun, or as a person (e.g. Chat told me…) it means ChatGPT.
They also use it generically as the regular noun ‘chat’ when they’re talking about chat rooms and livestream live comments, (eg. “Paste in chat”)
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