James Paul 
Artificial intelligence sometimes has in store for us to say the least. At Apple, the vocal dictation software integrated into the iPhone currently presents a fairly embarrassing anomaly : it occasionally replaces certain words comprising the consonant ” R “By name” Trump ». A bug that was observed in particular with the terms ” racist “,” unleashing “Or” rampant (Raming and crawling in English).
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The problem was confirmed by several usersthen checked by the Wall Street Journal through multiple tests. The sequence is always similar: after several correct uses of the accused word, the system ends up replacing it with ” Trump “, Before returning to the normal transcription a few moments later. You can have a little overview on the video below.
A technical failure that does not intervene at the best of the moments for Apple, who tries to catch up in the field of AI. Indeed, Apple Intelligence is, for the moment, not to the best of its form and remains generally below everything that is done in competition. Recently, the firm even had to deactivate a summary function of current articles following complaints concerning errors in the syntheses generated.
An Apple spokesperson has recognized the existence of the problem, explaining that sometimes voice recognition models can start to display words that have phonetic overlaps. Without detailing the precise causes of this error, she assured that Apple was ” aware of a problem with the voice recognition model that feeds the dictation ” And that a fix would be deployed immediately.
Thing promised, thing due: at the time of writing this article, this little Algorithmic slips had disappeared. The tests have been performed on a French iPhone model and an American model, so we can conclude that Apple was able to react quickly.
It was also better than that was the case, the company having announced on Monday an investment of $ 500 million intended to strengthen its operations on American territory. This economic expansion plan provides for the creation of 20,000 jobs spread over the whole national territory over the next four years, as well as the establishment of a new production unit in Houston whose inauguration is scheduled for the ‘Year 2026.
For his part, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, continue to make soft eyes to the new presidentexactly as he did during his first mandate. This little bug could have made a stain If he had dragged a little too long on the canvas, social networks being a particularly fertile terrain for the conflagration, even if it is only minor subjects.
- A bug in the vocal dictation of the iPhone replaced certain words containing a ” R ” by ” Trump »,.
- Apple quickly recognized and corrected the error, explaining that it was a problem of phonetic recognition.
- With its recent investments in the United States and its rapprochement with Trump, the firm narrowly avoided an unnecessary bad buzz.
