Writing scripts, creating novels, coding, answering questions… the almost omnipotent ChatGPT has become a frequent topic on hot search lists in recent months.
At the end of November last year, ChatGPT was launched and quickly went viral on social media. In just five days, the number of registered users exceeded 1 million; within two months, ChatGPT’s monthly active users surpassed 100 million, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. Have you ever wondered what ‘GPT’ in ChatGPT really means? What is its full name?
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What Do G, P, and T Stand For?
G stands for generative, which commonly means capable of producing; productive.
P stands for pre-trained, where ‘pre-‘ is a prefix meaning before…, and ‘trained’ means trained or educated. So, pre-trained means pre-training.
T stands for transformer, which refers to the transformation model.
The full name of ChatGPT is Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, which translates to: Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer in Chinese.
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In recent years, the 5G network has been rapidly popularizing; what does the G here mean?
5G is pronounced “five G”, where the letter “G” is an abbreviation for Generation, meaning “generation”. Therefore, 5G refers to “the fifth generation mobile network”.
Example sentence:
The coverage of 5G mobile network is only going to get better, and that s where the carriers are spending most of their money right now.
The coverage of the 5G mobile network will only get better, and major carriers are currently investing heavily in building the 5G network.
What does the G in 5G data refer to?
When checking data, we usually see the numbers followed by “MB” and “GB”, pronounced as “megabytes” and “G”. Have you ever delved into these two data units?
First, let’s talk about “MB”; it represents “megabyte”, corresponding to the English term megabyte, pronounced [ˈmeɡəˌbaɪt]; then “GB”, which represents “gigabyte”, corresponding to the English term gigabyte, pronounced [ˈɡɪɡəˌbaɪt]. The data unit 1GB=1024MB, 1MB=1024KB, 1KB=1024B.
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Lastly, let me share some English expressions frequently used when using a mobile phone:
1. Phone Crashes
“Phone crashes” can be expressed as:
① My phone broke down.
② My phone crashed.
③ My phone is out of order.
2. Phone Is Dead
① My phone s dead./My phone died.
These expressions literally mean “my phone has died”, but the real meaning is “my phone is out of battery”.
Example sentence:
Sorry, my phone s dead.
Sorry, my phone is out of battery.
② My cellphone is out of power./My phone has no power.
“out of” means “exhausted”, and power refers to “electric energy”.
These expressions indicate that the phone is completely out of battery; how do you say if the phone is low on battery but can last a little longer?
① My phone is going to die.
② My phone is running out of battery.
③ My phone s dying.
3. No Data, No Signal
Data can be represented by data, unlimited data is unlimited data, and no data is out of data.
Example sentence:
Oh no！My phone is out of data and it s just the first week of this month.
Oh no! My phone has no data, and it is only the beginning of the month!
Signal can be represented by “reception”; no signal can be said as: no reception
Example sentence:
The reception is too bad in my room.
The signal in my room is very poor.
4. Phone Credit
In English, “phone credit” is most commonly expressed as credit, which can refer to the amount available on a phone account. If your phone credit is insufficient, you may hear a voice prompt saying: “Sorry, you don t have enough credit to make this call.”
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