Artificial Intelligence / Unit 9 AI 0501 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Next-Word Task
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The idea
A language model assigns probabilities to what comes next in a running text — and modern language machines are built by making that one prediction extremely good.
In practice
"The plumber said the leak was under the ___" — scoring that blank well demands grammar, world knowledge, and conversation tracking at once.
Where people slip
Prediction's ceiling is enormous — pressing on it recruits whatever regularities help.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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