The newest version of the keyboard, released last night for 99 cents, also predicts words by learning what a user types over time.

FORBES: With Swype, Nuance Begins?Quest To Process What We Say -- Everywhere

In other words, they are learning many of the same things that people do, except they do not get tired or sick, never ask for a raise and when they get too old to function effectively, their hardware can be replaced.

FORBES: The Education Of An Algorithm

But when I went with Dinah and started hearing the words and the melody, I'm learning the whole song instead of just the bottom part, and also the middle and the top.

NPR: Keter Betts, Reflecting on a Life in Jazz