Let's take a deterministic algorithm that predictably corrects your typos and build it on AI. It will offer you no benefits, but it will completely destroy the utility since it will never work predictably or accurately.

Suggest puts up options for the next word.

They both serve the same purpose of helping the user quickly and accurately communicate on a cell phone. Like auto-suggest, I rely on auto-correct to fix things that I know I commonly mistype. When it doesn't work predictably, it's useless.

Honestly I was quite surprised at how regular people are impressed by this tech. I was also surprised by how little regular people are aware of this tech even existing.

We, on hackernews, are largely unimpressed. But that’s not the vast majority of people.

>> Yeah! Don't they make a trillion dollars a year? How is it so crappy?

And for some damn reason they refuse to stop changing "ok" to "OK" like we're all octogenarians on Facebook.