Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong

Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by nfg on Saturday August 08, 2020 @02:24AM (#24089537)

The one the drives me mad the most is when I type a word which it incorrectly autocorrects to a proper noun (which gets capitalised), I then use backspace to delete that word and type the - completely different - correct one, but it insists on upper-casing the first letter to match the original casing of the incorrect autocorrect. It really should keep track of the fact that it introduces the case-change and invalidate it when the automated action itself is invalidated. This happens frequently to me.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by strogonoff on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:01AM (#24089668)

I can never make iOS write “Hong Kong” when swipe-typing; tried setting up forced text replacement entry (kong->Kong) to zero effect. It is always “Hong kong”.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by jsinai on Saturday August 08, 2020 @06:42AM (#24090566)

Similarly I can never get iOS to type “Kings Cross”, it always forces “Kong’s Cross” even when I delete the word and retype.

PS: iOS just did this twice while typing this reply.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by logicprog on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:42PM (#24093005)

iOS for me always autocorrects king -> kong, and I don't understand why. What even is "kong," and who says it more often than "king"??

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by sildur on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:09AM (#24091018)

I think you also have to signal iMessages when it got it right by sending the message. I tried a lot of times teaching it how to write Hong Kong and when it got it right, I sent the message. From that point onwards it always writes Hong Kong correctly.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by culturestate on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:14AM (#24089721)

iOS always capitalizes Hong Kong properly for me, but I write that so much that I guess I could have trained it.

Edit: I also bought all of my iOS devices in Hong Kong so, there's that.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by strogonoff on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:32AM (#24089780)

I corrected it hundreds of times so it had plenty to learn from. If you don’t have this bug when swipe-typing then I guess it’s much less likely to be fixed for me in an update, oh well.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by strogonoff on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:15AM (#24091402)

Bought my iPhone in HK as well, double physical SIM slot is a must have!

Most other devices I bought elsewhere, except for those I was dead sure I’m going to keep. As far as I can tell HK is the only place in the world where Apple retail has a no returns policy.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by culturestate on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:45AM (#24091587)

> As far as I can tell HK is the only place in the world where Apple retail has a no returns policy.

Yeah, we can thank the x-border gray market for that. In the beginning it was...flexible, in that if you obviously weren’t a smuggler they’d quietly accept the return, but I haven’t needed to test that in a while.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by Angostura on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:57AM (#24091655)

Weird - just tried it and ir capitalised it correctly. I'm on the ios14 public beta, though.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by strogonoff on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:12PM (#24094243)

That’s good news! I’m on iOS 13, wasn’t able to find a way to install the beta yet (not a registered iOS developer myself).

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by culturestate on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:17AM (#24089729)

It seems to conflate people's names with words in a sentence, e.g. "I'm crossing the Bridges." Could just be confirmation bias, but whenever I notice that problem it tends to be a name in my address book.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by bzb4 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:45AM (#24089828)

Reminds me of how it capitalises "El Niño" as if I was talking about that climate thing, when I'm just trying to say "the kid" in Spanish.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by SilasX on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:36AM (#24091529)

Interesting. I was going to suggest that was from using the English rather than the Spanish keyboard but I just saw my iPhone do that on the latter as well.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by anorakoverflow on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:23AM (#24090005)

I know exactly what you mean! This is even more annoying in German, where every noun is capitalised.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by dwighttk on Saturday August 08, 2020 @06:42AM (#24090567)

Why would it be more annoying? Seems like it would be harder to notice this error in German.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by brewmarche on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:30AM (#24090772)

It's more annoying because when you type a non-noun there is a higher chance that it gets mistakenly autocorrected to something capitalised (as every noun in German is capitalised versus only proper nouns in most other languages). I hate this flaw of iOS as well.

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Re:Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says crit... by dwighttk on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:09AM (#24091016)

Got it

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