eli5: Why does ChatpGPT give responses word-by-word, instead of the whole answer straight away?

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This goes for almost all AI language models that I’ve used.

I ask it a question, and instead of giving me a paragraph instantly, it generates a response word by word, sometimes sticking on a word for a second or two. Why can’t it just paste the entire answer straight away?

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It doesn’t do that because it can’t, that’s not not how it works. It doesn’t form complete thoughts and express them, it comes up with the most plausible word it can think of to go next after what it’s already written. It is just a more advanced version of  the autocomplete function on your phones keyboard. That’s why it’s so dangerous to use it for research, it will give you fake answers if they sound convincing enough because it doesn’t know the difference

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