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Beyond fixing iPhone’s autocorrect as widely mentioned below, I wonder if in future versions Apple will end up switching to phi-1.5 or other models that are muc
by dkga 3y ago
Beyond fixing iPhone’s autocorrect as widely mentioned below, I wonder if in future versions Apple will end up switching to phi-1.5 or other models that are much smaller but trained on higher quality data.
Would also be cool if they trained their own copilot for Xcode, given their obviously enturmes code base in Swift and Obj-C.
- dchest 3y agoI'd guess they already trained it on high quality (and highly censored) data. It's GPT-2-like architecture, but not GPT-2 weights. phi-1.5 is 1.3 BILLION, this one is a lot smaller at 34 million.
- fragmede 3y agoWhat's "high quality" refer to here? The amount of txt spk I use on my iphone keyboard, vs words that are in the dictionary, is heavily skewed in the direction of short words that a corpus consisting of English text is likely to omit.
- basisword 3y agoYou use text speak on an iPhone? How? I find it impossible due to autocorrect. Either it will correct with the full word or it will correct with a wrong word making it more efficient to just type in full.
- tuukkah 3y agoTurn off autocorrect: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207525 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207525
- astrange 3y agoWhy? So you can use text speak? Bit silly.
- tuukkah 3y agoIn general so that what you write is not mutilated by software that doesn't know the words you use. If there are typos, it's not difficult for the receiver to "autocorrect" while reading, but when autocorrect miscorrects, it's not easy for the writer to notice how the message changed nor for the reader to guess what was there before the "fixes".
- kayodelycaon 3y agoThat assumes your typing and spelling accuracy is high and the other person reading has significant proficiency in your language. My typing and spelling accuracy is horrendous to the point I use autocorrect on my laptop. For me, it’s an important accessibility feature. I also use dictation for single words.
- tuukkah 3y agoNormal spellcheck still exists, highlights typos and lets you pick from suggested fixes. Anyway, I'm not saying you shouldn't use whatever works best for you but one size doesn't fit all.
- macNchz 3y agoI’ve had autocorrect disabled on my iPhone for years—for whatever reason it really bothers me when something I just typed magically changes into something I didn’t want to write. I like that what I type is exactly what appears, not the computer’s guess at my intent. It’s one of the first things I disable when setting up a new Mac as well. It took a few months to get used to it, but I developed typo-correction muscle memory pretty quickly (RIP 3D Touch, it was awesome for text editing). Plus I think that the copyedit re-read that I give to things I write on my phone is helpful above and beyond just catching typos. So be it if I make the occasional typo!
- dkga 3y agoI'm one of the "lucky few" that (a) really needs autocorrect because I can never seem to type correctly in mobile phone keyboards and (b) really hates autocorrect because often it either gets me wrong or worse, changes legitimate words into awkward and incorrect words - like the other day I typed something pretty mundane that got changed into a more... vulgar word. I got a little reprieve with swiping text, but still, autocorrect should be much better.
- basisword 3y agoMy problem with this (I’ve tried it) is that the iOS keyboard still seems to try to guess which key you meant to type. So you hit “o” and it thinks you probably meant “p” and inserts that. Last I checked this still occurred with autocorrect off and made it even worse than using autocorrect.
- egwor 3y agoMy hypothesis is that this question, "What's 'high quality' refer to here?", is a big challenge and the answer depends upon the audience. Here are a few examples: - kids use one level of slang - older ages groups using another (and it might mean something quite different) - communications for professional wouldn't use slang and would use formal messages - different cultures/regions will use different phrases for the same thing (and some colloquialisms are quite sophisticated like Cockney rhyming slang) - on twitter when out of space you might then shorten words The thing that really 'riles me up' / 'get on my wick' / 'annoys me' / 'is immensely frustrating' / 'is an opportunity for a sales feature' [trying to demonstrate the different phrasing depending upon audience] is when the auto correct 'fixes' grammar incorrectly. It needs to be clever enough to realise the correct use of there/their/they're and its/it is/it's. I'll leave with a relevant poem: https://allpoetry.com/poem/4010351-They-re-There-with-Their-Words..-by-Twiztid-Lolo https://allpoetry.com/poem/4010351-They-re-There-with-Their-...