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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Mostly, it’s a design choice for user comfort. Computers generate most things in sequence, but AI is quite slow compared to other software, so they decided to give every bit right away as it’s generated, to not make users impatient. Especially since LLM generates quite long texts to begin with. It’s also more impressive. If LLM would be “thinking…” between each answer for 10+ seconds, you wouldn’t find it as cool.

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