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Autocomplete: Will Spelling, Grammar Become Lost Art?
- Slate, Friday, April 6, 2012 12:42 PM
Will Oremus describes how Google autocompletes us. He writes that last month Google made its first attempt at applying Web-based, contextual spell-checking to a word-processing program and wonders whether spelling and grammar will become a lost art, similar to the ability to add, multiply or divide numbers in our head, or even on a piece of paper. Will spelling become more optional, he wonders, drawing a parallel to arithmetic. The heady problem lies in artificial intelligence. Oremus tells us why.
