Wired's history of autocorrect


A not-so-brief history of autocorrect, since its early days as a minor feature in Microsoft Word, to the contextual autocorrect of Apple that can distinguish between the language you use with your friends and the language you use with your boss.

It also discusses an interesting cultural phenomenon of a slang created in Asia, by teens that use the first word from an autocorrect instead their chosen word.


read more: Wired
tags: autocorrect machine-learning