Microsoft Adds Bing AI Chat To Its SwiftKey Keyboard for Android 18
Android users who want to tap into some AI as they type on their phones can now do so with help from Microsoft. Released this week, the latest flavor of the Microsoft SwiftKey Beta keyboard integrates the Bing AI bot to bring some smarts to your typing. From a report: Confirming the beta release in a tweet posted on Wednesday, Pedram Rezaei, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer for the Mobile and Commerce Division, asked: "Did we just add major AI functionality to @SwiftKey?" and then followed up by saying: "Slowly rolling out. Get yourself onto the Beta channel to taste the future." By selecting the new SwiftKey beta as the keyboard on your Android device, you can search for information via Bing, ask the AI to rewrite certain text, and chat with it to generate specific content. If you already have the current regular release of SwiftKey, you can keep that one, install the beta, and just switch back and forth.
Wow Microsoft Bing AI (Score:4)
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Have fun living in the past as you argue about what is and isn't intelligent. I suppose you don't play games because you're still arguing that A* pathfinding isn't true NPC AI
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Gotta love it when the big corps marketing departments get so far over their ski's. None of these companies have working or viable AI! It is just good automation. There is no intelligence in what these companies are touting as Artificial Intelligence.
I asked chatgpt "could you please generate a slashdot post by someone called "old grey beard" who is a curmudgeon about AI and doesn't believe that a recent product launch using AI is even properly intelligent." It gave this post:
Take this recent product launch, for example. They're touting it as the latest and greatest in AI technology, but let me tell you, I've seen more intelligence in a rock. Sure, it can analyze data and make predictions, but that's not real intelligence. Real intelligence involves understanding the world around you, being creative, and adapting to new situations. These AI products can't do any of that.
I know, I know, the proponents of AI will say that we're just not giving the technology enough time to mature. But I've been around the block a few times, and I've seen enough of these launches to know that they're all just smoke and mirrors. We're not even close to creating truly intelligent machines, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
I thing, oldgraybeard, that there's not noticeably more intelligence in your slashdot post than there was in what ChatGPT generated.
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What they have is unquestionably AI. It's just that the term 'AI' isn't very useful. Linear regression is AI.
The trouble is that what most people expect when they hear the term 'AI' isn't what they get. It never is.
Re: fuck off microshitbaglosers (Score:2)
It already creeps into windows and office starting to bug you about everything.
"You can use this feature because it's smarter" messages are just disruptive.
More Bloatware! (Score:1)
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I tried going back to the Samsung keyboard after Swiftkey became hot garbage but it was awful, which makes sense as it's literally just a clone of Google's default keyboard. I ended up switching to the actual GBoard keyboard and have been extremely happy with it ever since.
Re: More Bloatware! (Score:2)
I use "programmers keyboard".
The keys are a bit small but it's quite good otherwise.
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I think the thought process is more along the lines that if they bloat the hell out of every product, it's less likely that anyone will take time to complain about the data siphoning because they'll be too busy complaining that the product is barely functional due to the bloat.
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Well, can't say I'm suprised... (Score:2)
I'll guess I'll be going back to Gboard, but how long until that gets Bard (or whatever it's called) offering to write witty texts for me?
SwiftKey still exists?? (Score:3)
I remember when they bought SwiftKey, but shortly after that it just languished and seemed to be abandoned. It became more and more buggy and felt like abandonware that MS had acquired just to occupy the market space and then left to die. I ended up switching to GBoard and have had a MUCH better experience since then, and it's frequently updated as well. But of course now that there's an opportunity to occupy a market segment again with *New Shiny* (tm) they can dust it off and tack on some glorified autocomplete garbage so they can ride the publicity wave. :rolleyes:
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I have to say, I've been using Swiftkey for well over 13 years now.
I've found the word suggestions really good. I have not found the need to switch to a new keyboard.
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For me it just kept getting buggier and buggier, and the word suggestions and private dictionary would keep being reset every time I changed phones. I got tired of it sucking and moved. And bonus that GBoard actually has most medical and technical words in it, though some of those may not show up in swipe typing by default until you use them once.
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>I've found the word suggestions really good.
Same. I think it's because they base suggestions from texts you've already written. Rather than Gboard, which seem to base the suggestions on global info. Therefore, SwiftKey's suggestions always sound like something you specifically would type, while Gboard's tend to be generic expressions/responses/etc
i.e. Once while using Gboard, I texted "Can you pick up some" and the suggestion was "milk". I've never asked anyone to pick up milk in my life...
Gee thanks MS (Score:2)
First of all (Score:2)
"oMg mIcRo$fT, aI iN mUh kEybOaRd! eViL eViL i tElLs yOu!"
Ok, now that's out of the way, I don't think I really want any AI of any kind in my keyboard. Among other things is the possibility of stuff being written on it being subtly changed to fit a bad actor's desires.
If I needed any AI assisted typing, it would be a program running on the computer, not within the keyboard itself or it's driver. I just don't trust it.
I tried this out (Score:2)