How AI names encode design philosophy: a timeline

From AlphaZero's blank slate to Superhuman's rebrand from Grammarly, 20 systems across 8 years reveal how AI naming evolved from functional to philosophical. Transformer announced a paradigm shift in 2017. ELMo and BERT made NLP approachable through Sesame Street characters. Agents/copilots are creating a new system. The metaphors are changing our relationship with technology.