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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by deergomoo on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:54AM (#37542221)
> then you can start making the tap targets for those keys bigger

That’s how autocorrect has worked since day one, it was just using a simpler heuristic-based prediction rather than a machine learning model.

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Re:A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text... by willis936 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:27AM (#37543868)
That's how it should be, but as others have implied and I claim outirght: the heuristic-based prediction has been broken for years.

The solution badly needed isn't a complicated black box model when we know a simple one is good enough.

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