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The Next-Word Task

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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.

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"The plumber said the leak was under the ___" — scoring that blank well demands grammar, world knowledge, and conversation tracking at once.

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Prediction's ceiling is enormous — pressing on it recruits whatever regularities help.