Jesoos Flippin’ Kristofferson, are you ducking kidding me? Apple iOS 17 is set to learn you mothertruckers’ favourite swear words – and it’s all thanks to AI.
At its annual WWDC conference, where the Vision Pro perhaps stole the limelight a bit, Apple announced that iOS 17 will come with a much improved autocorrect that will learn and more accurately predict which words and phrases you’re most likely to use.
According to Apple‘s software chief Craig Federighi (via a prerecorded presentation): “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too.”
If, like me, you have a bank of your own personalised swear words, this will definitely make your life easier – however, as someone who’s also worried about the inevitable AI uprising, I feel conflicted.
Buggery Josephine.
The AI model Apple will be using is known as a “Transformer” model, which has become the go-to choice for developers when it comes to things like generating music, complex AI reasoning, the summarising of documents, and classifying objects in images – as well as a number of other uses.
Turns out it’s also pretty damn good at learning your swear patterns!
Source: TechCrunch
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