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Critique of an Early Transformer-Based Language Model

A pioneering 2018 language model was based on a transformer architecture that processed text strictly in a left-to-right sequence to predict the next word. Evaluate the primary conceptual limitation of this unidirectional approach. In your analysis, discuss specific types of language understanding tasks where this design choice would likely result in suboptimal performance and explain why.

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