4 ms·
I doubt Apple’s going to make some big ChatGPT-style chatbot. They’re “just” going to use the same tech to drive iterative (good!) improvements to their product
by madeofpalk 3y ago
I doubt Apple’s going to make some big ChatGPT-style chatbot. They’re “just” going to use the same tech to drive iterative (good!) improvements to their products, like Siri and keyboard auto-complete.
- fbdab103 3y agoI would challenge the keyboard autocomplete. I find the Apple suggestions to be frustratingly poor vs my experience on Android.
- Booourns 3y agoOut of curiosity have you experienced their autocorrect on iOS 17 because that’s when they updated to be LLM based?
- georgespencer 3y agoTransformer based autocomplete on iOS 17 feels just as bad -- but in different ways -- as its previous incarnation to me.
- simonair 3y agoAre you tapping the keys or swiping over those that make up the word you want to type? In my experience, tapping has always been and remained poor but swiping is getting better and better with every iOS version.
- LoganDark 3y agoSwiping through keys doesn't have anything to do with autocomplete. Autocomplete has to do with predicting which word you're going to type next, not guessing which word best corresponds to the swipe you just made.
- golergka 3y agoThose are very related tasks, you use results of the former to help you with the latter.
- FLT8 3y agoI don't recall exactly when it started happening, but I've been having lots of issues with recent iOS versions rewriting not the last word entered, but the word before that. For example, if I start entering "I went to", it'll sometimes correct to "I want to", but it'll do that after I've typed the "to". I've found lots of similar examples. The retrospective nature of the edits mean I miss a lot of them and makes me appear a lot less literate than I am.
- walteweiss 3y agoSame happens to me quite very often on a mobile, even here. But I use iPhone SE 1st Gen. with iOS 15.8.
- spike021 3y agoI thought it couldn't get any worse and then I upgraded to iOS 17. It's awful.
- shrimpx 3y agoYeah. Siri supports text input already, anyway. Siri is their ChatGPT-style bot that's going to keep improving.
- ghusbands 3y agoBut does it even work sensibly, yet? Almost every time my partner asks Siri something, it works so badly that we end up asking Android/Google's Assistant, which responds well to most things.
- qgin 3y agoWhat sort of things don’t work well? Phone actions or knowledge / info type questions?