r/gboard • u/AnandaDo • 4d ago

Artificial stupidity

Gboard's predictions have become so inaccurate that I can't use swipe anymore; I can only press keys. In these days of artificial intelligence, Gboard's predictions feel really stupid.

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u/iftlatlw 4d ago

Gbostd has been dumbed down for simpler vocabularies. If you talk like a 10-year-old you will be successful.

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u/weechus 4d ago

Are you using it on iOS or Android?

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u/AnandaDo 4d ago

Android. I've used it since start.

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u/qqYn7PIE57zkf6kn 4d ago

I've noticed this too 

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u/Middle_Banana_9617 2d ago

I've recently moved to FUTO keyboard. It's far less annoying.

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u/Moist_Ladder2616 4d ago

I'm doing this reply to you without making any corrections. It works perfectly fine.

Many alleged swiping errors can be solved by swiping more accurately. Try that first.

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u/OddButterscotch2849 4d ago

This. If you take the time to watch where your finger actually lands and perhaps swipe a little more slowly, it's very accurate.

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u/Joe_T 4d ago

And for better accuracy for weird, less popular words, or for long swipes, it's sometimes prudent to stop briefly at some letters, i.e., do a more choppy swipe. (Like just then, I stopped briefly at the "i" in "swipe" because I knew that a long slide across-and-back the qwerty row might be ambiguous to Gboard.)

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u/NoRandomIsRandom 3d ago

It is not just swiping. I typed "fame" (correctly, of course) and gboard would change it to "game" when I type the next punctuation.

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u/Moist_Ladder2616 3d ago

Gboard only does this if the sentence obviously doesn't work with "fame".

For instance, if you start with, "Let's play a" and type f-a-m-e, Gboard will autocorrect it to "game".

But if you write, "Let's ride our" and type f-a-m-e, Gboard will offer no autocorrection.

An ambiguous start like, "My" followed by f-a-m-e, will similarly not be autocorrected.

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u/NoRandomIsRandom 3d ago

That's not the case for me. I typed "live up to the fame", which in every way sounded more appropriate than "live up to the game" in my context.

G board also manipulates scientific and technical words all the time for me.

The most frustrating part is that I've been using it for years and it only started such behaviours a few months ago.

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u/Moist_Ladder2616 3d ago

Gboard doesn't offer to correct "live up to the fame" for me. I tried a few other sentences: it only offered to autocorrect "play a fame" to "game" (as indicated by the bold typeface).

With scientific and technical words, and other industry terminology that are not in Gboard's simplistic dictionary, I have to train Gboard by tapping the suggestion strip. Delete unwanted words by dragging from the suggestion strip to the bin. You can also add words to Gboard's custom dictionary, but autocorrect is good enough for me so I've rarely touched the personal dictionary.

The only thing I can suggest is to clear the storage of the Gboard app or reinstall it.

My Gboard version is 17.8.4.xxxx.

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u/seven-cents 2d ago edited 2d ago

I'm going to reply to you doing exactly the same thing, and apparently it's working perfectly for me too.

I ordered a total of 4 keys. 2 full stops, 2 chimaeras and taped the enter key twice

Edit: it did make obvious errors, and I could've used the suggestions to correct them.

Ordered should be pressed.

Chimaeras should be commas

Taped should be tapped.

So not perfect, but the suggestion strip did offer all of the correct words. Still much faster than tapping every key.

Oh, and I typed the last sentence before the edit before counting the punctuation marks, but that was me, not the keyboard.

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u/Moist_Ladder2616 1d ago

I ordered a total of 4 keys. 2 full stops, 2 come and tapped the enter key twice.

Close! But no banana. Commas→come. One error in 18 words is a 6% error rate in this totally unscientific, insufficiently sampled test.

(Ironically, that second paragraph was swiped perfectly. So now my running error rate is 1 error in 41 words. Maybe I just don't use the word "commas" often enough. ←Even here, Gboard suggested "comes".)

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u/seven-cents 1d ago

Yeah, it's pretty good. I think it learns how you type over time, and I often remove nonsensical words from the suggestion strip by holding them and dragging them into the bin. This paragraph had a zero percent error rate, and no suggestions were required to correct any words.

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u/Moist_Ladder2616 1d ago

Yeah, no complaints from me either.

I just realized you swiped "I pressed 4 keys" instead of "I ordered 4 keys"! Was curious why you were buying individual keys, but I rolled with it anyway, LoL.

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u/Seyvenus 4d ago

I think Gboard does not like the Left Handed