At the core of all human interaction is communication. But over the past four years, a fundamental shift has snuck up on us. After the introduction of ChatGPT ...

It wasn’t too long ago that talking to a computer and having it not only understand, but speak back, was confined to the realm of science fiction, like that of the shipboard computers of Star Trek.

Prediction has been touted as a “canonical cortical computation” [i], and essential for basic linguistic processes [ii]. Naturally, the efficiency with which the brain can implement its various forms ...