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I was actually thinking just this morning that if there’s ONE area where AI could really make a difference, it’s in predictive text on keyboards. How many times do I have to type “Roman Empire,” say, before the keyboard suggests “Empire” the next time I type “Roman”? The keyboard doesn’t even recommend my own last name when I type my first name.

Except reading the article, this is anything BUT that. It’s some AI-generated art stuff so you can create custom stickers or some useless shit like that.

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SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think that’s what Apple did with ios17. they just prefer to use words like machine learning instead of AI. It definitely is improved, I was able to finally switch back after using Gboard for years.

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- Blastasaurus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Most of the hype is machine learning by definition, AI is just so much catchier.
  
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  - GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    AI is also the broader term. It also covers algorithmic approaches.
    
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- iMike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I can confirm it’s much better in iOS 17
  
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raptir@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Doesn’t Google Keyboard already do this? It definitely auto-completes common phrases for me. I mean stupid example but I post about Diablo 3 and 4 a decent amount and if I type Diablo it predicts the next word as 3 or 4.

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- TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yepp, it learns over time from my inputs too. I started to recognize my own phrases/word order in suggestions. It’s probably a setting somewhere.
  
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BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It shouldn’t take AI to be guess that if I redo the word three times then your suggestions are shit.

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beeb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Been using SwiftKey for years (probably more than 10 at this point) and it always had very good predictive performance (i.e AI in its own right).

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- RheingoldRiver@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  do you use the swiping function of it? I've found that to be TERRIBLE at "prediction based on context" e.g. understanding if I want "if" or "of" it does the one that doesn't make sense in context. and it doesn't understand that if I type a word, and then delete it and retype it, maybe it should give me something different the 2nd time around (particularly irritating for if/of).
  
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  - beeb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I use it occasionally when I have only one hand available. Never had much trouble with it but I noticed you must be quite precise when swiping. As for suggestions, usually one of the three words at the top is the one I need so I rarely need to delete a word unless I really mistyped it badly.
    
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Andy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Your example was probably not a real case, but I checked with my swiftkey and after “Roman” it suggested “reigns” “catholic” and “Empire”

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- Denalduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I believe it’s based on your personal keyboard predictions.
  
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chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think it’s been ai this entire time and the crowd-sourced iq is so fucking dismal this is what we get. I’ve had it suggest weird internet slang I’ve never used…

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x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Samsung keyboard suggested empire after typing Roman and I don’t believe I have ever used “roman empire” in a sentence before excluding this comment

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