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It’s interesting that the latest rumour is Globalstar, previously they were rumoured to be going with OneWeb who I believe will have a better network when it’s complete.

OneWeb were due to finish their constellation this summer, but have had to redirect launches from Russia to SpaceX delaying the completion of it. I wander if that impacted the Apple deal, with Apple wanting to launch the product this year.

OneWeb were launching incredibly quickly last year, achieving one launch of 34-36 satellites per month. It’s unfortunate that it came to a halt in February due to Ukraine. They are currently on 428 of 648 for the complete constellation, I believe just below what’s needed for initial operation.

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> constipation

Ha, autocorrect…

Aw, why'd you fix it? That was gold.

Alas, constipation eventually does come to an end.

Maybe... but this was compete constipation

I really can’t stand how stupid autocorrect is, surely in an age where deep learning can predict how proteins fold it can phonetically and contextually correct words?

I know right, it’s definitely not related to words you write on a regular basis…

100% agree. Maybe the specific layout of a QWERTY keyboard is somehow particularly bad for this, but jabbing at the general location of the letters I want combined with a half decent AI should make text entry really damn reliable.

Even just writing that paragraph, so many autocorrect opportunities were missed, and so many were suboptimal or just plain wrong…

Blows my mind that Apple isn’t doing better at this feature at this ooont. No, I meant to type “point”!

I keep hearing how robo taxies are a year away - meanwhile when I asked Google assistant to call my wife to avoid looking at the screen and driving it decided to call some company in Delaware (despite me living in central Europe).

Seems like there's low hanging fruit in AI applications that are still not even close to optimal.

“something went wrong”

I've just accepted that it about 70% of the time it'll switch the words "ill"/"I'll", "well"/"we'll" and "its"/"it's" to the wrong version even when I use them correctly.

I just switched it off.

It's useful enough in other cases though - it's just a bit overzealous when I am accurate. The weird thing is that there was a period where it was near-perfect, then one iOS upgrade caused a sudden decline in quality that's remained ever since

iPhone's autocorrect at one point was rather decent because it was running from a language model. And then AFAIK they switched to a crowdsourced model which... just sucks and is never correct

That “language model” and the keyboard itself would also adapt to your own writing patterns. As you’d type, the hit areas of the letters would dynamically change to adapt based on the previously typed letters and your typing history. For example, if, when typing a word, you consistently would hit between two keys when only one made sense, it would increase the hit area of the key you meant to hit and decrease the other.

When Apple tried to use AI to make autocorrect better it got worse.

But it really ducking sucks…

I hear the inventor of autocorrect died and went to hello.

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