text prediction

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Text prediction is used to fill in possible following words of phrases given past text. Simple versions based on n-gram frequencies can be used to offer typing suggestions or correct misspellings, but more complex predictions, especially those in large-language models can continue the text, almost indefinitely as found in chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard.

Used in Chap. 17: page 283