Apple can’t do AI/machine learning if their lives depended on it. This is a friendly reminder that it took Apple until the year 2023 to have a functioning autocorrect on the iPhone keyboard.
- I can search my photos on my phone, despite not having uploaded them to the cloud (image recognition runs locally)
- FaceID
- Excellent OCR in pretty much everything
They've been cautious about shipping generative AI features, but they're absolutely leading the field in terms of building great features using edge ML running on devices.
It's really very good and proibably saves me 5 minutes on a big shop. Very understated, non-flashy ML
2. Add List
3. Set "List Type" to Grocery
I googled it the other day and setting the type was the key.
Awesome.
https://thinkml.ai/iphone-ai-artificial-intelligence-feature...
But Apple and Google are leading the cutting edge for on-device AI.
I had to turn off half of them to stop it writing random stuff for me
Yeah it did some annoying things like correct fuck to duck... but to call it non functioning is just flat out wrong. More often than it it did what I needed it to do.
Also "friendly reminder" maybe we should ask ourselves why a certain Ad company has so much data to improve their AI at faster paces, and it isn't because they have better engineers.
It also somehow misses simple corrections. Try it right now, it doesn’t know that “ennencuiate” should correct to “enunciate”. Or even “dejline” to “decline”.
What’s worst about the swap—a-roo’ing is that it will replace a common logical word in a sentence with something seldom-used.
Like, it’d correct “overwhelmingly just not how it works” to “ontologically just not how it works”.
I can't even turn it off because I use the swipe input.
It's so funny that it'll use new, wrongly guessed information to change previous context rather than using that context to correctly guess the new information.
That being said, I think they toned it down in one of the recent updates. I remember being infuriated much less by it than a year ago.