Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
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Props to the intern that snuck that in.
They need an award for getting that done.
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If it ain't broken, don't fix it, stupid!
Well, it really is hard to explain to someone
Trump is very trump.
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
It pulls a synonym—what’s the big deal?
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Well, it really is hard to explain to someone
Trump is very trump.
I'm not Trump, but..
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
The AI is learning on its own.
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Seems like autocorrect doing it's job!
Duck yeah it is
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The AI is learning on its own.
The closest we've ever been to actual AGI.
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Props to the intern that snuck that in.
Did an intern sneak that in or did the model itself decide to do that?
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The closest we've ever been to actual AGI.
I hope our digital children can learn to forgive us for the mess we left them.
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
For once, SIRI got something right.
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
General intelligence has been achieved?
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I think autocorrect has some things mixed up. Not every rectangle is a square, but every square is a rectangle …
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
Why can‘t my autocorrect do a proper job like that but instead come up with the trumpest nonsense?
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
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Did an intern sneak that in or did the model itself decide to do that?
Models don't decide.
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
I couldn't actually believe this article was real. Figured it was a comedic post like that previous one about switching to Cyrillic letters in the US .
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
They're the same picture
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Did an intern sneak that in or did the model itself decide to do that?
No intern, it was St Luigi doing the gods work
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."
The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.
However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."
Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."
I hope they just never fix it, just be like "yeah
it must be the R's???? We are working on it"
