In the last few decades, there has been an increased interest in the role of pre...

In the last few decades, there has been an increased interest in the role of prediction in language comprehension. The idea that people predict (i.e., context-based pre-activation of upcoming linguistic input) was deemed controversial at first. However, present-day theories of language comprehension have embraced linguistic prediction as the main reason why language processing tends to be so effortless, accurate, and efficient.

People say ChatGPT is just a next-word prediction machine. But these articles say human brains are doing the same, at some level.