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by justusthane 4y ago
> constipation
- samwillis 4y agoHa, autocorrect…
- metadat 4y agoAw, why'd you fix it? That was gold.
- andy_ppp 4y agoI really can’t stand how stupid autocorrect is, surely in an age where deep learning can predict how proteins fold it can phonetically and contextually correct words?
- samwillis 4y agoI know right, it’s definitely not related to words you write on a regular basis…
- zaroth 4y ago100% agree. Maybe the specific layout of a QWERTY keyboard is somehow particularly bad for this, but jabbing at the general location of the letters I want combined with a half decent AI should make text entry really damn reliable. Even just writing that paragraph, so many autocorrect opportunities were missed, and so many were suboptimal or just plain wrong… Blows my mind that Apple isn’t doing better at this feature at this ooont. No, I meant to type “point”!
- moonchrome 4y agoI keep hearing how robo taxies are a year away - meanwhile when I asked Google assistant to call my wife to avoid looking at the screen and driving it decided to call some company in Delaware (despite me living in central Europe). Seems like there's low hanging fruit in AI applications that are still not even close to optimal.
- krnlpnc 4y ago“something went wrong”
- smcl 4y agoI've just accepted that it about 70% of the time it'll switch the words "ill"/"I'll", "well"/"we'll" and "its"/"it's" to the wrong version even when I use them correctly.
- classified 4y agoI just switched it off.
- smcl 4y agoIt's useful enough in other cases though - it's just a bit overzealous when I am accurate. The weird thing is that there was a period where it was near-perfect, then one iOS upgrade caused a sudden decline in quality that's remained ever since
- bumblebritches5 4y ago
- dmitriid 4y agoiPhone's autocorrect at one point was rather decent because it was running from a language model. And then AFAIK they switched to a crowdsourced model which... just sucks and is never correct
- colejohnson66 4y agoThat “language model” and the keyboard itself would also adapt to your own writing patterns. As you’d type, the hit areas of the letters would dynamically change to adapt based on the previously typed letters and your typing history. For example, if, when typing a word, you consistently would hit between two keys when only one made sense, it would increase the hit area of the key you meant to hit and decrease the other.
- scarface74 4y agoWhen Apple tried to use AI to make autocorrect better it got worse. But it really ducking sucks…
- yetanotherloser 4y agoI hear the inventor of autocorrect died and went to hello.