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by usef- 45 days ago
Is "text autocomplete" supposed to be an insult? To text auto-complete a physicist I would have to understand physics as well as them. To text-autocomplete your words I would need to model your brain.
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Text autocomplete is just a descriptor of the technology.

To do text auto-completion all you need to know if the probabilities of words appearing after other words, no understanding of those words or the meanings behind them is necessary.

You do need some kind of understanding to correctly know what's coming next