The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of our lives, saving us time by seamlessly filling in a word before we can type ...
Next-word prediction has been hypothesized as the central computational objective of the human language system, akin to that of current large language models. Here we put this conjecture to the test, ...
New research shows that in anticipating others' words, we take into account a larger linguistic structure, focusing on a word’s surroundings within groups of words rather than only what word comes ...