About Ducking Time: Apple Won’t Autocorrect Swears

June 6, 2023 Business, Technology

CNET reports:

If you’re tired of your iPhone keyboard always autocorrecting your swear words, you’re going to love this new feature. At WWDC 2023 on Monday, Apple announced iOS 17 and unveiled an improved and more sophisticated autocorrect feature — which makes cussing so much easier.

“And in those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it too,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior VP of Software Engineering.

The iPhone’s keyboard on iOS 17 leverages a transformer model, which OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) uses in their own language models, to learn from what you type on your keyboard to better predict what you might say next, whether it’s a name, phrase or curse word.

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