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Along with AI advances in Windows 11 and Bing, Microsoft also this week announced it's bringing new AI-powered features to its SwiftKey mobile keyboard
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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.
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.
Most of the hype is machine learning by definition, AI is just so much catchier.
AI is also the broader term. It also covers algorithmic approaches and knowledge representation.
I can confirm it’s much better in iOS 17
It shouldn't take AI to guess that if I redo the word three times then your suggestions are shit.
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.
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.
Been using SwiftKey for years (since the very beggining, probably 10 yrs at this point) and it always had very good predictive performance (i.e AI in its own right).
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).
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.
Your example was probably not a real case, but I checked with my swiftkey and after "Roman" it suggested "reigns" "catholic" and "Empire"
I believe it's based on your personal keyboard predictions.
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
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...