At the most basic, you give it text and it can guess at what comes next. This means you could type "10 types of ferns" and it will build a list of 10 ferns. Or

At the most basic, you give it text and it can guess at what comes next. This means you could type "10 types of ferns" and it will build a list of 10 ferns. Or you could type it out how a transcript of a conversation would look like and it will basically fill in the other "side" of the conversation to make a chatbot (all the complicated chatbots are basically abstracting this). Think of it like a text box with a super-smart (arguably) person also having access where you can type one thing and then it'll type whatever it thinks would be the next thing to type.