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VulchR

macrumors 68040
Jun 8, 2009
3,508
14,459
Scotland
Yeah I always think apple can go ———-itself when their technology thinks it knows what I am trying to say better than I actually do. How do you turn it off??
It is possible - see https://www.techjunkie.com/turn-off-autocorrect-iphone/ for instance.

However, for me the issue is not to turn auto-correct off, which would be catastrophic for me for a variety of reasons, but that the algorithm has an utter lack of context awareness. Even simple cases like "well" versus "we'll" are not handled in a context-dependent way. The algorithm simply checks word-by-word, which is hopeless and hasn't changed fundamentally since the 1980's. Even looking at word transition probabilities between pairs of words, let alone having some semantic understanding of the sentence being written, would be a huge step forward.
 

Slartibart

macrumors 68040
Aug 19, 2020
3,145
2,819
Over a day I communicate in 4 languages - this involves 4 different keyboards to simply type faster. If a certain keyboard is active autocorrect often works for a while in the corresponding language… only to randomly switch the language. 🤪

Want some fun: place the cursor at the beginning of a word and enjoy the suggestions 😂🤣… it seems to take the previous word in account when placed like this… but in no coherent pattern.🥹

That it seems partly crowdsourced doesn’t really help either… it simply suggests or corrects too often in a way nobody nintendo. 😁😇
 

madeirabhoy

macrumors 68000
Oct 26, 2012
1,673
622
i was just posting on another forum on my iphone, and i misstyped priveleged. after one miss press of proveleged (surely it would know what i meant) i deleted and entered priveliged and it corrected it to Priceline's....
 
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