[MarkusQ]

I wonder if it's some sort of search engine hack or something? The diffusion of "General Purpose Technologies" seems like a slightly strained way to phrase it, and should have struck the author as awkward given the name space collisions. Unless it's an attempt at humor?

[credit_guy]

It is indeed an attempt at humor, but it comes near the end:

> when a GPT finds a form factor that allows it to fulfill a real need. Whether it be celestial navigation, steam power or, indeed, the Generative Pretrained Transformer.