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Random Suggestions

Leor Grebler
1 min readMay 25, 2020

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“If you aim to cheat the devil, you owe him an offering”

If you ever find yourself bored, just use your keyboard auto suggest to determine how long before things start to break down:

I have to drop off the check for you and your phone call with your phone call me call call me when you get a chance to check out the new update and update it ….

This was typed suggestion. Strange. I almost always use the word “cheque” instead of “check” unless I’m checking on something. I felt like the keyboard on my Mac was about to explode.

This is what Gmail had to offer:

I wanted to check if the owners available email quota has been a few minutes ago to me any time to visit our frequently asked questions about the plan is to be a good time to visit our frequently asked questions about the plan to be a good time to visit our frequently asked…

All I can think of is a fidelity test on WestWorld and how the host is about to realize that he’s not a human. I wonder how far in the next five years these auto suggestions will go before they fall apart.

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Leor Grebler
Leor Grebler

Written by Leor Grebler

Independent daily thoughts on all things future, voice technologies and AI. More at http://linkedin.com/in/grebler

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