• HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I suspect this is what’s happening. They’ve gone from a prescriptive ‘pre-programmed’ autocorrect to a more AI based ‘machine learning’ one. Hopefully this means it’ll eventually improve, although I don’t know why it’s taking so long.

    (I could be wrong about all of this, of course.)

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is precisely what I’ve been thinking.

      I feel like they gathered data, studied it, and wrote a prescriptive autocorrect that IMO was perfectly fine and was still pretty good at catching words I was most likely to use.

      Then, all of a sudden, it turned into fucking scrabble and I find myself going, “WTF are you thinking autocorrect?”

      Not sure when the change started but it’s officially shitty now.

    • YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Barring code maintenance, they really had no reason to roll this out until it surpassed the old system. The AI could still train on data gathered while using the old system.