Artificial intelligence is making great ahead in leaps an bounds. Take this report from Computing UK, for example, of it being used in the identification of cancer in a research project undertaken in Japan. It seems there is no area untouched by AI’s mighty reach. But one frontier may yet remain: predictive text. I still suffer from more frequent bouts of Predictive Text Rage (my invented name for the syndrome) than I think I should have to. It often brings me to a point where I want to hurl my phone across a room in frustration. Or at least swear. Which it helpfully turns into something less profane.
Sadly, Scientific American, tells me:
The sheer quantity of attempts to solve the text-input problem hints at a larger truth: There is no obvious, perfect solution (…) (T)ext entry without a physical keyboard may be one of those receding-horizon deals: no matter how far we travel, we’ll never quite reach the finish line.
Now there’s another reason for some PTR.