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When ChatGPT first took the world by storm in 2022, its capabilities were so impressive that people happily looked past its awkward name. Yet hidden within those initials lies a key breakthrough responsible for sending artificial intelligence rocketing these past few years – and potentially a limitation that could see it crashing back to Earth.
GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, and it is the last word that matters most. The term was coined in a 2017 paper by a team at Google, which introduced a concept called…