Maybe at very high level of abstraction, but there's no branching involved.
replyWell, there are multiple token proposals processed in parallel, from which only one is picked, seems like branching to me. The only difference is that in case of CPU there is always only one possible branch that is correct.
replyThe concept of predicting future elements in a series is not specific to CS. It's older than computers.
replyWell, the TPUs they're running on don't have branch prediction, so that had to end up somewhere in the stack.
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