text prediction

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

The glossary is being gradually proof checked, but currently has many typos and misspellings.

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 262