Predictive Text

by @rdlinder

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Lyrics

As I write with predictive text
What’s the word that comes up next?
Will it change my very thought?
Make a sentence I would not?

If you want me to make sense
Words that follow are intense
I’m not going anywhere
I’m just trying not to care

Should I get a new phone or
Something that’s not quite a bore
Than a random list of words
Basically they are unheard

Just like you I guess you know
No one cares where this will go
It’s a testament to how
Such a thing exists and now

I will never understand
What it means for the world and
All the people that are born
Really are the ones forlorn

Comments

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Captures auto-completion pretty nicely. Words meandering here and there, saying things, but not really aiming anywhere. Reminds me of Tristram Shandy's pointless ramblings. And William Hertling's Avogadro Corp., a sci-fi story in which a general AI develops accidentally from an e-mail text completion software.
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