A company is developing an AI for generating marketing slogans. They are testing two different text generation configurations:

• Configuration A: At each step of generating a slogan, the system instantly picks the single most statistically likely word to come next. This process is very fast.
• Configuration B: At each step, the system considers several different high-probability words, temporarily builds out the different resulting phrases, and then selects the phrase that is most c

For a system that generates text one word at a time, the strategy of always choosing the single most statistically likely next word is both the most computationally efficient method and the one that guarantees the most coherent and contextually optimal final output.

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