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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by cmehdy on Sunday September 17, 2023 @01:59AM (#37541955)
I've had a similar experience with autocorrect on Android across multiple phones (lg, samsung) and keyboards (gboard, swiftkey) around the same time, I'm curious to know whether it's just my own bias being validated or something happened. All predictions have become completely stupid (switching languages mid sentence when they were robust in the past, finding least consistent suggestion first, suggesting very random terms I've never seen like "Gaylene" when I swiped to write "happened", etc).
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by gkoller on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:19AM (#37542058)
Typing on Android was perfect when Swype was still around. GBoard and SwiftKey were worse and seem to actually decline in accuracy till this day.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by cja on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:42AM (#37542175)
Swype was the best. Google should buy it and release it as the new version of Gboard
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by freeone3000 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:01AM (#37542631)
Swype was acquired by Nuance which was acquired by Microsoft. Its competitor, SwiftKey, was also acquired by Microsoft.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by kevingadd on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:11AM (#37542330)
I reset my gboard training data every 6-12 months since if I don't it seems to steadily get worse.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by colordrops on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:06AM (#37541993)
Same. I suspect everyone switched algorithms at some point because it was "state of the art", but actually a step backwards in reality.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by gleenn on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:16AM (#37542045)
Maybe they were optimizing battery or some other metric that wasn't necessarily prediction performance.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by navigate8310 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:49AM (#37542911)
I can vouch for this from personal experience. Back when I had my Nexus 4, the built-in keyboard surpassed the current Gboard by a long shot. I'm not sure what happened along the way, but the spell-checking capabilities of the completely offline and lightweight keyboard that Google shipped back in those days were miles ahead.
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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by nprateem on Sunday September 17, 2023 @05:37AM (#37543181)
Same here. I get all sorts of nonsensical suggestions when swiping now that I never used to get. It changed a few years pre-covid, so yeah, 5-6 years ago. I assumed it was stunting to do with a list lawsuit against samsung or something
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