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

Question

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?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Of all the text that has been written, it preticts the next word.
So when you ask “Who is Michael Jordan?” It will take that sentence and predict what the next word is. So it Predicts “Michael”. Then to predict the next word it takes the text: “Who is Michael Jordan? Michael” and predicts Jordan. Then it starts over and again with the text: “Who is Michael Jordan? Michael Jordan”. In the end it says “Who is Michael Jordan? Michael Jordan is a former basketball player for the Chicago Bulls”. So bascily it takes a text and predicts the next word. That is why you get word by word. Its not really that advance.