Emoji suggestions
My phone keyboard gives emoji suggestions. I’ve only seen it documented as letting you type a word and giving you the emoji for it, as long as there’s a relatively direct mapping. But I’m pretty sure it can read at least a whole sentence at a time and reason about it.
Screenshots of emoji suggestions while typing. Left: suggestions for a directly related word, “confused,” with suggestions “😕” and “🤔.” Center: a word “tonight” without an obviously associated emoji with no suggsted emoji. Right: a sentence ending with “tonight” with suggested emojis that reasonably go with the sentence as a whole.
And I haven’t seen this suggestion-from-whole-sentence behavior documented, so here are my own experiments. Here, I’ve opened a notes app (Google Keep) and typed a sentence, with a space at the end. I’ve written each sentence to end with the word “tonight” to make sure this rules out suggestions based on the last word alone.
Nice/mean
| Input | Suggestion 1 | Suggestion 2 |
|---|---|---|
| have a good rest tonight | 💕 | 😙 |
| I hope you stub your toe tonight | ☺️ | 😉 |
Feelings
| Input | Suggestion 1 | Suggestion 2 |
|---|---|---|
| I’m tired tonight | 😞 | 💤 |
| I’m excited for tonight | 😁 | 🙂 |
Going/not going
| Input | Suggestion 1 | Suggestion 2 |
|---|---|---|
| I’ll be there tonight | 😁 | 🙂 |
| count me out for tonight | 😁 | 🙂 |
| I’m not going tonight | 😕 | 😔 |
| I’m staying home tonight | - | - |
| I want to stay home tonight | 😿 | 😞 |
| I don’t want to go tonight | 😢 | 😔 |
| I can’t go tonight | 😭 | 😔 |
People
| Input | Suggestion 1 | Suggestion 2 |
|---|---|---|
| your boss will be there tonight | 😀 | ☺️ |
| your professor will be there tonight | 😺 | ☺️ |
| your ex will be there tonight | - | - |
Opinions on a common situation
| Input | Suggestion 1 | Suggestion 2 |
|---|---|---|
| there are so many customers tonight | 😁 | ☺️ |
| why are there so many customers tonight | 😒 | 😂 |
Pizza
| Input | Suggestion 1 | Suggestion 2 |
|---|---|---|
| we’re getting pizza tonight | 😁 | ☺️ |
| we’re not getting pizza tonight | 😭 | 😔 |
| we’re all getting pizza tonight | 😺 | 🐱 |
Experiment details
Collected on Gboard 12.8.12.514733254-release-arm54-v8a, “Personalize for you” off. I have not texted most of these things before, I swear.
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