On: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

[anamexis]

Simple substitution of phrases doesn’t sound like any AI.

[xgulfie → anamexis]

Autocorrect unleashed doesn't sound like any AI either but that doesn't stop anyone from calling it that

[stymaar → xgulfie]

Aren't most autocorrect transformer-based?

[sebastiennight → stymaar]

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.

[sublinear → sebastiennight]

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

[sebastiennight → sublinear]

Yes, I meant, find the closest word by edit distance. I'm unsure where vectorization would factor in here?

[sublinear → sebastiennight]

When I made this comment, I was thinking of edit distance embedding (like everyone else in this reply chain) while you're thinking of BK-trees.

We're just talking past each other. I agree that a tree is the historical solution. I didn't catch that part.