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by lrei 1145 days ago
Transformer is the architecture. "Generative Pretrained" is just a term made up by the author to mean what everyone called for decades before and will call for decades after "Language Modelling". It was just a new way of saying "Language Modelling Transformer" that sounded cooler to the author and gave it cool initials. Coming up with cool names for models is hard.