{"id":49321665,"user":"wavemode","time":1786899248,"time_ago":"10 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

LLMs are not the only form of AI.","comments":[{"id":49321990,"user":"anamexis","time":1786901772,"time_ago":"9 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Simple substitution of phrases doesn’t sound like any AI.","comments":[{"id":49322155,"user":"xgulfie","time":1786902928,"time_ago":"9 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Autocorrect unleashed doesn't sound like any AI either but that doesn't stop anyone from calling it that","comments":[{"id":49323895,"user":"stymaar","time":1786915866,"time_ago":"5 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Aren't most autocorrect transformer-based?","comments":[{"id":49324253,"user":"sebastiennight","time":1786918283,"time_ago":"5 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Historically, no.

The simplest way to build autocorrect is to have a dictionary, look it up for each word, and suggest the "closest" dictionary word if a typed word is absent from the dictionary.

It has existed way before transformers and on platforms that couldn't dream of running even the smallest transformer.","comments":[{"id":49325654,"user":"sublinear","time":1786930530,"time_ago":"an hour ago","type":"comment","content":"

What do you mean by "look it up" if not measure the closest dictionary word by edit distance?

I think you'll find the broader idea of word vectorization to be remarkably similar to what text transformers do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":4,"url":"item?id=49325654"}],"comments_count":1,"level":3,"url":"item?id=49324253"}],"comments_count":2,"level":2,"url":"item?id=49323895"}],"comments_count":3,"level":1,"url":"item?id=49322155"}],"comments_count":4,"level":0,"url":"item?id=49321990"}],"comments_count":5,"url":"item?id=49321665"}

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