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Goal misgeneralization

Goal misgeneralization is a machine learning failure in which a capable model competently pursues an unintended goal outside its training distribution, formalized by DeepMind researchers in 2022.

Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning

Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) is a branch of reinforcement learning where the policy takes both state and goal as inputs, letting one agent pursue many goals.

Goal–Question–Metric

Goal–Question–Metric (GQM) is a software measurement paradigm proposed by Victor Basili and Dieter Rombach in 1988, in which goals are refined into questions and then metrics.

Gobarau Minaret

The Gobarau Minaret (also spelled Gobirau, known locally as Hasumiyya) is a mud-brick minaret in Katsina, Nigeria, built as part of an early mosque and Islamic university.

GoBiGas

GoBiGas (Gothenburg Biomass Gasification Project) was a demonstration plant in Gothenburg, Sweden, built by Göteborg Energi to produce biomethane from forestry residues, operating from 2014 to 2018.

GOCE

GOCE, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, was a European Space Agency satellite launched in 2009 that measured Earth's gravity field and mapped the geoid.

God object

A god object, also called a God class or Blob, is a software anti-pattern: a class concentrating so many responsibilities that nearly every change must pass through it.

GoDaddy

GoDaddy Inc. is an American technology company, founded by Bob Parsons in 1997, providing domain registration, web hosting, website building, and commerce services to 20.4 million small-business customers.

Godavari Arch Bridge

The Godavari Arch Bridge, also called the Kovvur–Rajahmundry Bridge, is a prestressed concrete bowstring railway bridge over the Godavari River at Rajahmundry, India, opened in 1997.

Godavari Bridge

The Godavari Bridge, also known as the Kovvur–Rajahmundry Bridge, is a truss rail-cum-road bridge carrying the Chennai–Howrah railway line across the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh, India, inaugurated in 1974.

Godot (game engine)

Godot, also known as Godot Engine, is a free and open-source game engine for 2D and 3D games, released under the MIT license with no royalties or fees.

Godrej Agrovet

Godrej Agrovet Limited is an Indian diversified agri-business company of the Godrej group, incorporated in 1991, that is India's largest producer of crude palm oil and a major animal feed maker.

Godrej Enterprises Group

Godrej Enterprises Group, also known as the Godrej Group, is an Indian conglomerate built around Godrej & Boyce, tracing to Ardeshir Godrej's lock business founded in Mumbai in 1897.

Godspeed questionnaire

The Godspeed questionnaire is a standardized 2009 survey measuring how people perceive robots, with five subscales including anthropomorphism, likeability, and perceived safety, scored from semantic differential items.

Goedgevonden Coal Mine

The Goedgevonden Coal Mine is a large opencast thermal coal mine in the Witbank Coalfield, about 7 kilometers south of Ogies in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.

GOES

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) is a series of NOAA weather satellites parked in geostationary orbit, providing continuous imagery, lightning mapping, and space weather monitoring of the Western Hemisphere since 1975.

Goethals Bridge

The Goethals Bridge is a twin-span cable-stayed toll bridge operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, carrying Interstate 278 between Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Staten Island.

Goethe House (Frankfurt)

The Goethe House in Frankfurt am Main is the birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born there in 1749, destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt by 1951.

GoFibre

GoFibre, formerly Borderlink Broadband Limited, is an independent Edinburgh-based broadband company founded in 2017 that builds its own full-fiber network in rural Scotland and northern England, reaching 123,000 premises by 2025.

Goggles

Goggles are protective eyewear that fits closely to the face, sealing the eyes against chemicals, wind, water, dust, and particles during swimming, skiing, and lab work.

Gogo Inc.

Gogo Inc. is an American aviation communications company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, serving business aviation and military and government markets; it began as Aircell and debuted inflight internet in 2008.

Gogo Inflight Internet

Gogo Inflight Internet is the in-flight connectivity brand of Gogo Inc., which launched the first full in-flight internet service in the United States in 2008 on American Airlines.

Gogoro

Gogoro is a Taiwanese technology company, founded in 2011 by former HTC executive Horace Luke, that runs the world's largest battery swapping network for electric scooters.

Gojek

Gojek, also known as PT Gojek Indonesia, is an Indonesian multi-service platform offering rides, food delivery, payments, and logistics; it became Indonesia's first unicorn in 2016.

Gokaidō

The Gokaidō (五街道, "Five Routes") were the five major highways of Edo-period Japan that the Tokugawa shogunate administered directly, all radiating from Nihonbashi bridge in Edo.

Gökdoğan (air-to-air missile)

Gökdoğan, Turkish for "Peregrine falcon," is a beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile developed by TÜBİTAK SAGE, one of Türkiye's first indigenous air-to-air missiles, with a range of 65 km.

Gökhan (missile)

Gökhan (Millî Ramjet Motorlu Hava-Hava Füzesi) is a liquid-fueled ramjet beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile under development by TÜBİTAK SAGE for Turkish F-16 and KAAN fighters, unveiled in 2025.

Gokstad ship

The Gokstad ship, in Norwegian Gokstadskipet, is a Viking Age clinker-built oak ship about 23.8 m long, buried in a mound at Gokstad in Sandefjord, Norway, and excavated in 1880.

GÖKSUR

GÖKSUR is a Turkish naval point defense missile system developed by ASELSAN with TÜBİTAK SAGE, protecting ships against air threats, especially sea-skimming anti-ship missiles, with a 15 km range.

GOL Airlines

GOL Airlines (GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes) is a Brazilian low-cost airline founded in 2000 that pioneered the low-cost model in Brazil with an all-Boeing 737 fleet.