Post AhwpidpBMwzFDvuHLs by samthurston@awscommunity.social
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(DIR) Post #Ahwi3cSWqEb5R9npia by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-16T10:29:54Z
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If we have so much good AI tech why can't anyone make a spell check that I can't stump?A few times a week I must go to the dictionary (like a cavewoman!) or search the web since I've mangled some word in such a way that there are no suggestions. It's just "wrong" what's wrong with it? Who knows!Could it be a scientific name and just not in the dictionary? Maybe! Could it be an obscure word with a pretentious UK spelling? Probably! Could it be wrong? Also probably. Do this first AI lords.
(DIR) Post #AhwiljSmA6srtvx9Jh by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-16T10:37:54Z
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The second thing that still can't be done is more of a general issue:Ask Alexa to add an event to your Google calendar? Can't be done.Ask Siri the author of the last audiobook you listened to? Can't be done!Ask Google when your package will arrive from Amazon? Can't do it!If you think "Well of course you can't do that, what company would aid the competition?" That's just my point. Meanwhile the databrokers have a profile of you that includes all of these things.
(DIR) Post #AhwjRTwMGYI7v7hJjM by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T10:45:10Z
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@futurebird the logical end to being a product
(DIR) Post #AhwjcKUdjL0Jo2uBSi by dathagerty@hachyderm.io
2024-05-16T10:47:16Z
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@futurebird what’s really sad is the spell check capabilities of CLI spellcheckers can just…check words against multiple dictionaries at the same time.
(DIR) Post #AhwjfqSNLaizo9WSCO by mensrea@freeradical.zone
2024-05-16T10:48:02Z
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@futurebird spellcheck will never be a match for my dyslexia. i'm just too powerful
(DIR) Post #AhwjjUZyd35f7AoiQK by blabberlicious@toot.community
2024-05-16T10:48:03Z
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@futurebird Stay tuned for the next Apple IOS. I think they’ll be all over that. As you say, it’s more about the gatekeepers like Apple having to find ways to circumnavigate their commitment to user protection, when all their data is going to be thrown in the robot chipper to fuel the convenience of their AI features. 😡
(DIR) Post #AhwktPsb3aRbOAp30i by paulc@mstdn.social
2024-05-16T11:01:37Z
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@futurebird I also find this frustrating. Sometimes my spelling is so close but nothing is suggested. And these are not highly technical terms.My solution is to enter the word into my web browser and that almost always finds the correct spelling. So it should be doable.I have to get this off my chest. It is spelling checker. Gandalf would use a spell checker. Yes, I've lost this one and will not die on this hill.
(DIR) Post #Ahwllbrii4CECSFn84 by mmezabet@craftgoblin.club
2024-05-16T11:11:28Z
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@futurebird I feel this pain. Further frustrating things, my keyboard often knows what I'm trying to type better than my texting app, but my texting app will absolutely take over and suggest the WORST options rather than the ones where I am off by one letter because I hit the letter next to it on the keyboard. I always have to tap in multiple places to get it to give up so that I can get back to my keyboard and choose the correct option from its suggestions. And they are BOTH Google products!
(DIR) Post #Ahwn1hLYCNUlmqRTE0 by cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
2024-05-16T11:25:33Z
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@futurebird As I see it, the competitive walls between these companies is an opportunity for ensuring my data doesn’t move between them. I am happy these apps don’t “work” across their boundaries, as I can use that Balkanization strategically.Data brokerage has highly consolidated and shifted since it started in the early ‘teens—it’s just meta and Google now. The stuff at the seams, they know, but those biggest companies have a stranglehold on their own data.
(DIR) Post #Ahwo9Qlvo2FSeX251k by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-16T11:38:00Z
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@cyberlyra I thought about the data safety aspect— but in the end it’s not really a secure wall just an inconvenient one: Nothing is stopping some company from using the last book I listed to to serve me ads: *so why can I get at least the same benefit from my own damn data* ?
(DIR) Post #AhwoSQwdO8kygr6GG0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-16T11:41:40Z
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@mensrea
(DIR) Post #AhwoXq9J6eweJAbc1I by johnefrancis@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T11:42:37Z
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@futurebird @cyberlyra the less balkanized the data is, the easier it will be to get our hands on it for ourselves through law. And the easier it will be to poison it with incorrect information to screen ourselves.
(DIR) Post #AhwobZrbb6dSxS6kdc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-16T11:43:10Z
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@Nicovel0 Wikipedia is going to be the only good part of the internet some day.
(DIR) Post #AhwodsvnfvxWfsAcWu by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T11:43:20Z
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@futurebird @cyberlyra Googling "where are my packages" would, at one time, return links to USPS tracking based on Gmail results. I haven't tried it in a while but I seem to recall it got disabled. So the capability is there, maybe?
(DIR) Post #AhwpidpBMwzFDvuHLs by samthurston@awscommunity.social
2024-05-16T11:55:39Z
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@futurebird @Nicovel0 don't worry, they'll figure it how to ruin that too
(DIR) Post #AhwzESmQrmRlpArwcC by Timpostma@mastodon.world
2024-05-16T13:41:53Z
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@futurebird look at chat bots can gather more information insights than a single google search
(DIR) Post #Ahx4zQuU8XKrPCqsrI by mikewoods@mastodon.me.uk
2024-05-16T14:46:47Z
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@futurebird Agreed! This seems to be much more likely if the first letter is one of the incorrect ones.
(DIR) Post #Ahx6BKOgHGRIdRDBQW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-16T15:00:00Z
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@mikewoods For me it’s the first vowel. I grew up in the midwest and we could only afford one vowel (E) in my youth. (yewth) 😫
(DIR) Post #Ahx7nnCfiyzow0V30i by dogfox@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T15:18:14Z
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@futurebird @mikewoods Vowels in English mean basically nothing.
(DIR) Post #AhxjWxIWjkmNZqdY4O by billyjoebowers@mastodon.online
2024-05-16T22:21:08Z
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@futurebird Spellcheck, spam filtering, and search are all hit or miss and not getting any better. The biggest companies in history have worked on them for decades. But sure, "AI" is going to work.