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After decades and billions of devices sold, not to mention that meteoric rise of machine learning and Al, autocorrect feels just as dumb as ever. In some ways it feels like it has regressed, even, making nonsensical substitutions when a simple letter swap would produce the correct word. Is autocorrect just really hard? Or is it not even trying to work the way it needs to? Is it no longer a priority?
THE MARCH OF NINES
I first learned of the concept called the “march of nines about 20 years ago (though I don't know where that term originated). I was researching and writing about the latest voice dictation software. That was back when computer users would have to buy software like Dragon Dictate to talk to their machines.
This story is from the April 2022 edition of Macworld.
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