Submitted 10 months ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to technology@beehaw.org
If GPT (decoder-only transformer) models are text predictors, then why keyboard apps on PCs/phones don't have GPTs as text predictor options? They can be more accurate than the widely used N-gram models.
They are, and have been since before GPT existed
Yeah, also true. Autocorrect on Android was already like a micro GPT
They’re not text predictors; they’re text transformers. So, more for translating a text from French to English, or providing you a summary of what a large input text is trying to say.
They can do prediction, but not well, and not without a lot of extra computation, as they’re really trying to summarize everything you’ve said, including the bit you haven’t written yet.
Have you heard about futo keyboard? It embeds a small LLM model for this very task. It also has an option to retrain based on user data.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 months ago
Probably power. It takes a lot to power the text predictors. Adding it to every single phone would probably mean a huge uptick in resource usage.
I’m just guessing though.
iloveDigit@piefed.social 10 months ago
You’re absolutely correct. Battery and RAM usage too hard to manage for now, phone makers will probably wait until the tech gets further before experimenting with this publicly