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I don’t know anybody that is blown away by keyboard auto suggest. It’s wrong as often as it is right. Not saying it isn’t useful, but let’s not oversell it.

SkyPuncher 4y ago
Lol. Especially the AI version of keyboard auto suggest. Let's take a deterministic algorithm that predictably corrects your typos and build it on AI. It will offer you no benefits, but it will completely destroy the utility since it will never work predictably or accurately.
- FPGAhacker 4y ago
  Auto correct and auto suggest are related but different things. Suggest puts up options for the next word.
  - SkyPuncher 4y ago
    My comment would remain exactly the same for auto-correct. They are essentially the same thing, just pre and post typing. They both serve the same purpose of helping the user quickly and accurately communicate on a cell phone. Like auto-suggest, I rely on auto-correct to fix things that I know I commonly mistype. When it doesn't work predictably, it's useless.
hackernewds 4y ago
Strongly believe selection bias among the folks you're getting this impression from. The avg user is not our circle.
- LASR 4y ago
  This is exactly it. Honestly I was quite surprised at how regular people are impressed by this tech. I was also surprised by how little regular people are aware of this tech even existing. We, on hackernews, on a thread about Stable Diffusion, are of course not too unimpressed. But that’s not the vast majority of people.
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  - postexitus 4y ago
    Your insistence on not understanding the point made makes me think you, my friend, are also an AI.
bongobingo1 4y ago
> Impressive isn't it! >> Yeah! Don't they make a trillion dollars a year? How is it so crappy?
- Godel_unicode 4y ago
  This is universally the result that I see from my nontechnical friends; Apple has literally all the money and Siri has the listening comprehension of a drunk beagle.
causi 4y ago
It’s wrong as often as it is right. And for some damn reason they refuse to stop changing "ok" to "OK" like we're all octogenarians on Facebook.
LouisSayers 4y ago
Maybe blown away at how terrible it is... like how many times do we need to correct it for it to show us the same shitty suggestions. I'm not sure I'd even notice if it were turned off.
dorfuss 4y ago
I am blown away that auto suggest is so wrong. I simply have this feature turned off.

SkyPuncher 4y ago

Lol. Especially the AI version of keyboard auto suggest. Let's take a deterministic algorithm that predictably corrects your typos and build it on AI. It will offer you no benefits, but it will completely destroy the utility since it will never work predictably or accurately.

FPGAhacker 4y ago
Auto correct and auto suggest are related but different things. Suggest puts up options for the next word.
- SkyPuncher 4y ago
  My comment would remain exactly the same for auto-correct. They are essentially the same thing, just pre and post typing. They both serve the same purpose of helping the user quickly and accurately communicate on a cell phone. Like auto-suggest, I rely on auto-correct to fix things that I know I commonly mistype. When it doesn't work predictably, it's useless.

hackernewds 4y ago

Strongly believe selection bias among the folks you're getting this impression from. The avg user is not our circle.

LASR 4y ago
This is exactly it. Honestly I was quite surprised at how regular people are impressed by this tech. I was also surprised by how little regular people are aware of this tech even existing. We, on hackernews, on a thread about Stable Diffusion, are of course not too unimpressed. But that’s not the vast majority of people.
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- postexitus 4y ago
  Your insistence on not understanding the point made makes me think you, my friend, are also an AI.

bongobingo1 4y ago

> Impressive isn't it! >> Yeah! Don't they make a trillion dollars a year? How is it so crappy?

Godel_unicode 4y ago
This is universally the result that I see from my nontechnical friends; Apple has literally all the money and Siri has the listening comprehension of a drunk beagle.

causi 4y ago

It’s wrong as often as it is right. And for some damn reason they refuse to stop changing "ok" to "OK" like we're all octogenarians on Facebook.

LouisSayers 4y ago

Maybe blown away at how terrible it is... like how many times do we need to correct it for it to show us the same shitty suggestions. I'm not sure I'd even notice if it were turned off.

dorfuss 4y ago

I am blown away that auto suggest is so wrong. I simply have this feature turned off.