AI driven AUTOCOMPLETE Seems like going bonkers, lately - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2025, 05:51:28 pm
content: Seems like the auto-complete has gotten very aggressive, over the recent year or so.Changing a sentence first word, for example.While I began to type, trying to focus, to do my best effort, at a good job, that at least somebody can gain some interesting reading, for their valuable time.I don't wish to wade into the Alcatel cellphone innards, while juggling 14 other issues, here.(But welcome suggestions.)Starting my new text sentence, I watch in pissed off SHOCK, and disgust.My very first word: 'On' getting auto-complete intervention, making it say: 'In'.That's CRAP, pure and simple, and disruptive to anybody's interest!I'd like to see other opinions on the humourous and disruptive effects !(I'm a chronic whiner, so be advised !)

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2025, 09:50:28 pm
content: Quote from: RJSV on March 28, 2025, 05:51:28 pmAre you sure your finger wasn't closer to "I" than to "O" here?That happens to me all the time; fat finger syndrome.Has nothing to do with "AI".BTW, since you're typing on a phone, do you know about "swiping"?So much easier and faster than finger-pecking that so-called "keyboard".You put your finger down, leave it on the screen and "swipe" across all the letters in the word you want to type.The phone pretty much figures out what you're trying to do, most of the time.I find it very handy and much less annoying.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2025, 07:14:39 pm
content: Quote from: RJSV on March 28, 2025, 05:51:28 pmThat stuff just makes me absolutely MAD to a point where I loose my temper even back in 2006 for Google when I first noticed it before I found I could switch it off using an option they provided. Like I am somewhat stupid and can't think(that aspect enrages me even more) but at least they gave me an option not to see it back then.I find it like whilst talking I am being spoken over and not given a chance to finish without major distraction.Google removed this option 2015 I think and the url complete=0 later on in 2017 and then I found Adblock could hide them so I started using Adblock/ublock just for that and the many other annoying distracting stuff as well as the animations.I know what I want to type, as it's only a few words, how to spell it and need space and time to type in what I want to type THEN after enter I don't mind seeing the suggestions on the side. Not be bombarded constantly with information and distractions for every word I type in the way (with the noticeable stalling and freezing recently like with Amazon where I had to create some rules using Ublock which was doing these queries for every word I typed according to the logger that appeared to take up a lot of CPU time. I noticed it was doing it before but not causing it to stall as I type with the suggest lines hidden.)

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2025, 09:45:17 pm
content: Oh ? Autocomplete isn't driven by AI ? ? ?I thought it was a function handled by AI. ?Some other details: Suggested finger Swipe isn't practical, as my finger tip spans three of the software / touchscreen virtual 'keys'.Also, any finger-tip swipes on the Alcatel have always created DRUNKEN and rapid results ...as is I had rapidly shoved a donkey's rear...uh...rear hoof.Everyone is so interested in my 'comm errors' that they getting 'confused'...they miss the part about TOPIC, involving computer functionality.ADD and all: 'Respect my Diversi-tae'I mess up, at times, yes, while hoping to at least minimally please Dave, with attention to clarity.p(Other thread, in beginner sect also very similar topic)

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2025, 09:52:24 pm
content: Another trick to avoid the app’s dictionary (not so much AI):While “typing”, there should be a line with the app’s guesses for your intent above the keyboard.If your intent is not familiar to the app, there should be a selection in quotes that represents what you have typed (I see it while typing this on an iPad) along with the more popular words. Click on that.I try to never type on a telephone (Once there was an elephant / Who tried to use the telephant).I had to use that trick to avoid autocorrecting the last word.If your place of work doesn’t allow games on your company hardware, you can complete with your peers by entering surnames into spell-check.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2025, 10:17:35 pm
content: Quote from: RJSV on March 29, 2025, 09:45:17 pmNot doubting you, Rick, but have you really tried swiping on your phone?I'm guessing my phone's "keyboard" (Android) is probably about the same size as yours (i.e., waaaay too small) and that my fat fingers also span more than one "key". And yet swiping works really well for me; I wouldn't call it "AI", but it has some really smart code that can decipher your path as you drag your fingers across the "keys" pretty well.At least that's my experience.Maybe try it again? Once you get it working you'll never go back to "hunt and peck".(Plus as Tim pointed out it pops up suggestions as you swipe, one of which may be the one you actually want even if it misinterprets your typing, which also seems to work pretty well most of the time.)

author: MAS3
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2025, 11:43:55 pm
content: I have to agree with RJSV on this one.Autocomplete is switched off on my device because it annoys the heck out of me.But nowadays, there seems to be some AI version of that which i can't find in the settings of my Samsung Android phone and therefore cannot be switched off, even though the already disabled autocomplete.Whenever i hit the space bar, i want a space.I do not want some crap suggestion of some complete other word than the word which was typed correctly anyway, which then is selected upon hitting the space bar (because that's the next thing that should go on the line i'm typing).Neither do i want to get a dot and a capital whenever i might accidentally hit the space bar twice, or if i typed a comma followed by the space bar (which is the correct way to type).

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2025, 12:25:48 am
content: All of those things ought to be user-selectable, like all the autocomplete options in Micro$oft Word.Otherwise some of them are bound to annoy a good part of the user base, even if other users like them.All part of good UI design.

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2025, 06:27:49 am
content: Have to respond, as my Alcatel cellphone goes into 'Drunk Hyper' meaning that the tracking 'contrail literally SHOOTS across most of the screen, as in an out of control Donkey's hind leg raking across the touch screen..."Oh, shit ! Now I'm going to have back all that bogus run of text....seemingly just a wild, out of control, and even just a bit of normal HEARTBEAT gets into the putting of extra, garbage characters just spewing across.(No thanks).Pressed ' IN', waited 1 second AFTER.Blip: 'On' then overwrites your text.Maybe, hahaha, the AI system knows my thoughts, simply by closely following the whole narrative, knowing the writer, knowing, to some degree, what other writers do, etc etc etcUhhhh; what was the question, again ?They need to monitor the natural AI temperature...(Temperature of my own brain), attempting to comprehend, the shit ooze of'Speculative Criticism'.Hey, that's a clev...uh, that's a fortunate phrase, to save for later!

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2025, 01:37:46 pm
content: Apple phones type better.Android phones always garble what I type.I can't expalin why.Perhaps it's psychological.I can't use anything but an iPhone or something with physical buttons that can't mis-register clicks.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2025, 10:46:22 pm
content: Quote from: Langdon on April 02, 2025, 01:37:46 pmHmm;; dunno about that.I've used both iPhones and Androids (my own phone is an android).I swipe on both of them, not hunt-and-peck.They both seem to work equally well for me. I think swiping is slightly more accurate. Certainly easier for me.Just goes to show that "typing" on any phone screen is a dicey proposition.

author: Langdon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 10, 2025, 03:30:14 pm
content: Human-coded autocomplete is better.It's more stable and predictable.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 10, 2025, 08:30:29 pm
content: Quote from: Langdon on April 10, 2025, 03:30:14 pmBut with AI, you can sell all those subscriptions and huge datacenters and even power plants, get all those grants, what's not to like?