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
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.
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).
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.
I can confirm it’s much better in iOS 17
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.
It shouldn’t take AI to guess that if I redo the word three times then your suggestions are shit.
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
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.
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…
