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Any strictly rule-based system, like accounting and taxes, is a job for traditional software, not AI. Particularly when the laws change every year.
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.
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?
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, just in multiple formats, 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.
Surprisingly, the mistakes ChatGPT made weren't related to picture processing. Every time I've sent a picture, it has flawlessly analyzed the text (even if it's a screenshot of a massive Linux log or a screenshot with multiple windows / arbitrary text placement). The problems were more like the markdown table I created would not be reproduced perfectly with the new changes/additions. It's pretty reliable early on, but either as the chat gets longer or the table does, fidelity can be lost. Not very often, but it does happen.
Just to clarify. But I find as long as you're paying close attention and can catch mistakes or verify the output, AI does make such tasks much less tedious.