Intermediate
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
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What is BERT and how does it differ from GPT?
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The correct answer is B) BERT is a bidirectional encoder (reads context in both directions) for understanding; GPT is a unidirectional decoder for generation
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Correct Answer
BERT is a bidirectional encoder (reads context in both directions) for understanding; GPT is a unidirectional decoder for generation
Explanation
BERT (encoder-only, masked LM + NSP) learns bidirectional context — useful for classification, NER, QA. GPT (decoder-only, autoregressive) predicts next token — useful for generation. T5 uses encoder-decoder.
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