For mundane topics, these two goals might seem identical, but their difference shows up as soon as a hint of controversy enters the picture. Instead, the goal of text prediction must be to anticipate what the user might want the machine to think they might want to type. With innocuous idioms (like "raining cats and"), the keyboard seemed more proactive about predicting them. It waited until I'd typed most of the letters of the final word, until I'd definitely committed to the taboo, rather than reminding me of weighty topics when I wasn't necessarily already thinking about them. After all, people often type things about sex or death-according to Google Ngrams, "job" is the most common noun after "blow," and "bucket" is very common after "kick the." But I experimentally typed these and similar taboo-but-common phrases into my phone's keyboard, and it never predicted them straightaway. The true goal of text prediction can't be as simple as anticipating what a user might want to type. There's no text-generating algorithm I would trust not to be offensive at some point." "Whenever I produce an AI experiment, I'm definitely filtering out offensive content, even when the training data is as innocuous as My Little Pony names. Janelle Shane, the creator of AI Weirdness, experiences lapses in machine judgment all the time. It's likely that a lot more filtering happens behind the scenes before we even notice it. Keyboards get roundly criticized when a sexual, morbid, or otherwise disturbing phrase does get predicted. Maybe this is more common than 'my Grandma's rave party.' But at the same time, it's not something that you want to be reminded about. "For a while, when you typed 'I'm going to my Grandma's,' GBoard would actually suggest 'funeral,'" van Esch says. Just because a sequence is common doesn't mean it's a good idea to predict it. This goes for sequences of words as well. After all, it's better to accidentally send the word "public" when you meant "pubic" than the other way around. There are certain words that it just won't try to complete, even if you get really close. You know how when you get a new phone and you have to teach it that, no, you aren't trying to type "duck" and "ducking" all the time? Your keyboard deliberately errs on the conservative side.
It's also hard to get a truly terrible answer. The combination of the customization and the randomness of the predictive text meme is compelling the way a BuzzFeed quiz or a horoscope is compelling-it gives you a tiny amount of insight into yourself to share, but not so much that you're baring your soul.
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