“Ultimately, that is all ChatGPT does technically—act as a very elaborate autocomplete like you have on your phone. You give it some initial text, and it keeps writing text based on what it statistically calculates as the most likely next token in the sequence. If you type “Finish this sentence: I think, therefore I . . . ,” the AI will predict the next word will be am every time, because it is incredibly probable that this is the case.” (Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence)
