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http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/the-30-most-hilarious-autocorrect-struggles-ever
No fax or photocopier ever autocorrected your words from "meditating" to "masturbating".
Every bit of additional functionality requires huge amounts of HUMAN development and testing, not in order to compile and run (that's easy), but in order to WORK AS YOU WANT IT TO.
I can fully believe that a superhuman intelligence examining you will be fully capable of calculating "what you mean" "what you want" "what you fear" "what would be funniest for a buzzfeed artcle if I pretended to misunderstand your statement as meaning" "what would be best for you according to your values" "what would be best for you according to your cat's values" "what would be best for you according to Genghis Khan's values" .
No program now cares about what you mean. You've still not given any reason for the future software to care about "what you mean" over all those other calculation either.
I kind of doubt that autocorrect software really changed "meditating" to "masturbating". Because of stuff like this. Edit: And because, start at the left and working rightward, they only share 1 letter before diverging, and because I've seen a spell-checker with special behavior for dirty/curse words (Not suggesting them as corrected spellings, but also not complaining about them as unrecognized words) (this is the one spell-checker which, out of curiousity, I decided to check its behavior with dirty/curse words, so I bet it's common). Edit 2: Also from a causal history perspective of why a doubt it, rather than a normative justification perspective, there's the fact that Yvain linked it and said something like "I don't care if these are real." Edit 3: typo.
To be fair, that is a fairly representative example of bad autocorrects. (I once had a text message autocorrect to "We are terrorist.")