When ChatGPT first took the world by storm in 2022, its capabilities were so impressive that people were happy to ignore its awkward name. But within those initials lies a key breakthrough that has powered AI’s leap forward in recent years — and potentially, limitations that could cause it to crash back to Earth.
GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, the last and most important word. The term was coined in a paper published by a team at Google in 2017, which introduced the concept of…