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Your phone guesses the next word

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When your phone suggests the perfect reply, it possesses zero understanding of context or human emotion. It is simply running a massive statistical lottery, calculating that the word 'pizza' has a highly probable chance of following the phrase 'let us eat'. It is just glorified gambling with a dictionary.

Your phone guesses the next word
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