Apple says that it will emit a software correction for an unusual and poorly informed transcription problem that has been shown in multiple Tiktok videos. The problem led to certain iPhones displaying the word “Trump” during the transcription of the voice voice with words that include “racist”.
An Apple spokesperson said that society was aware of the problem, which it attributed to a speech recognition model and said: “We unfold a fix.” Apple said that “phonetic overlap” with the words that include the consonant r trigger the bug.
In our own informal test, CNET could not obtain the 18.1.1 iOS version to display the word “Trump” when using words, including “racist”, “rhubarb”, “rhythmic”, “ramp” or “flying”. THE New York Times reported that he was able to reproduce the problem several times.
A more recent version of iOS, 18.3.1 was published earlier in February.
It is possible that the suggested word has been capitalized as the start of a sentence, not necessarily as a proper name. And instead of referenced the president’s last name, the use of “Trump” could be a reference to the word which means beat or win an advantage.
A former Apple employee speculated at the time when someone working on Apple software can have intentionally programmed in the problem.
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But Haibing Lu, an associate professor at the Leavey School of Business at the University of Santa Clara, thinks that embarrassing error could be a mistake.
“Text vocal systems depend on probabilistic language models that predict words based on sound models and context,” said in a CNET email. “When audio clarity vacillates or the words seem too similar, the system can momentarily choose a strange alternative before trying an automatic correction.”
This misadventure highlights the current technical limits and the biases inherent in important languages, said read.
Another expert noted that AI has its limits, and errors like this can erode confidence in still new technology.
“The AI is as intelligent as the data on which it is formed,” said Scott Stephenson, founder and CEO of Deepgram, an Ai platform working in APIs for the Soft Text.
Stephenson said that the bug is more proof that “voice recognition should be a question of understanding, and not to suppose,” noting that “the objective is not only precision, it is confidence”.
Apple did not say exactly when a fix will be issued.
A news from the bug emerged during the same week as Apple, the largest technological company in the world, announced that it invest $ 500 million in the United States, including money for Apple TV as well as content creation and around 20,000 new jobs. The CEO of the company Tim Cook met President Donald Trump last week.
