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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Modern ai is really truely just an advanced version of that thing where you hit the middle word in autocomplete. It doesn’t know what word it will use next until it sees what word comes up last. It’s generating as its showing.

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