mccMar 16, 2023
I just this second drew the line in my head from "Microsoft is one of the companies who is convinced ChatGPT is a good thing and is telling its shareholders it's going to try to shove this brand of 'AI' into everything it can" and "Microsoft owns my phone keyboard, since they bought SwiftKey" and, uh… shit, maybe I should audition AnySoftKeyboard sooner rather than later
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@mcc SwiftKey has used an on-device neural network for autosuggestions since 2016 (2015 if you count the SwiftKey Neural alpha test), so...

Yeah good thinking.

Show threadmccMar 16, 2023
@squid I don't necessarily oppose the use of neural networks, it's not like there's even that great a difference between neural networks and Markov techniques or word pairs or whatever they were using before, the problem is radical misapplications of neural networks. That and product tying, which I think we're gonna see a lot of from MS and Google soon
Show thread Squid! Mar 17, 2023
@mcc I don't generally oppose neural networks either, I'm just saying there's a precedent that makes me think they'd be eyeing SwiftKey hungrily since they've already cracked the seal on using AI in it years ago and just fired their entire AI ethics board.
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@squid yeah and I was already kind of worried what sorts of "metrics" about my typing they might be gathering but now I'm VERY worried
Mar 17, 2023 at 2:34amTusky