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• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Any strictly rule-based system, like accounting and taxes, is a job for traditional software, not AI. Particularly when the laws change every year.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Once it has the information in a recognisable format. Reading and recognising random receipts, bank statements, payment slips, and whatever and sorting it into a coherent format is what I’m trying to avoid.

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I see. So AI for gathering the information to put into the accounting/tax software?

      That’s a more reasonable ask, but I wouldn’t personally trust AI with that. I’ve done something similar in games where I take a picture of something on screen and ask AI to collect all the information from many similar pictures into a table. It’s definitely good enough for gaming, but it makes mistakes often enough I wouldn’t sign my name attesting to the truth of anything it produced, you know?

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      • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fair point, but i feel like that’s something that’s technologically solvable, and this is dealing only with text, a lot of which is already digital, and all easily checkable against the final figures if anyone so desires.

        As a random aside, I saw a clip recently where someone had asked an ‘AI’ model to reproduce a photo with zero changes one hundred times. There were more than zero changes.

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