: the very beginning
—used in the phrase from the get-go
didn't like me from the get-go
Examples of get-go in a Sentence
from the get-go, their relationship was tumultuous and doomed to fail
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This is heralded as the superhuman pursuit that was earlier hoped would be in AGI at the get-go.
Year 2043: Emergent meta-reasoning in AGI.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
The logic would seem to infer that AGI that lacks intelligence flaws is, in fact, flawed at the get-go.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
The failure of our planning department to do so at the get-go is a major mistake in governance.
—Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
No sense in working on generating an answer since the detection at the get-go was triggered.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Perry knew Washington would be his Charity Adams at the get-go.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Handy Prompting Template For Your Use Generative AI won’t necessarily be ready at the get-go to make use of a business policy and turn it into usable business rules.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The approach of doing so at the get-go is typically referred to as quantization-aware training (QAT), while the alternative approach of doing so afterward is known as post-training quantization (PTQ).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
There is a low likelihood of being able to data train generative AI at the get-go on the logic of humans because the data source of the Internet tends to omit the logic that might have been employed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
The logic would seem to infer that AGI that lacks intelligence flaws is, in fact, flawed at the get-go.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
The failure of our planning department to do so at the get-go is a major mistake in governance.
—Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
No sense in working on generating an answer since the detection at the get-go was triggered.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Perry knew Washington would be his Charity Adams at the get-go.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Handy Prompting Template For Your Use Generative AI won’t necessarily be ready at the get-go to make use of a business policy and turn it into usable business rules.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The approach of doing so at the get-go is typically referred to as quantization-aware training (QAT), while the alternative approach of doing so afterward is known as post-training quantization (PTQ).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
There is a low likelihood of being able to data train generative AI at the get-go on the logic of humans because the data source of the Internet tends to omit the logic that might have been employed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Get-go.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get-go. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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