>People will learn the hard way there is no market for machines that get the wrong answers.
Eh, in machines there are markets for machines that get it occasionally wrong as long as the defect rate is lower and or cheaper than the human equivalent defect rate cost. So I'd say that's a really bad take on the last few hundred years of industrialization.
In accounting there are really two different sets of things going on at once. There are 'the numbers' of which we'd run in a calculator, but then there is interpretation of the written rules in relation to the numbers you input. If your business is in any way complex, take your numbers to 3 different firms and see if even two come back with anything close to the same number. Hell, in the same damned firm we commonly see that two auditors will come up with different numbers and a supervisor had to look at the rule in question and make a judgement call on what they think the IRS agent would accept.
Now, don't confuse that with me thinking that using ChatGPT is a good idea to do the above. We are not there yet.
Eh, in machines there are markets for machines that get it occasionally wrong as long as the defect rate is lower and or cheaper than the human equivalent defect rate cost. So I'd say that's a really bad take on the last few hundred years of industrialization.
In accounting there are really two different sets of things going on at once. There are 'the numbers' of which we'd run in a calculator, but then there is interpretation of the written rules in relation to the numbers you input. If your business is in any way complex, take your numbers to 3 different firms and see if even two come back with anything close to the same number. Hell, in the same damned firm we commonly see that two auditors will come up with different numbers and a supervisor had to look at the rule in question and make a judgement call on what they think the IRS agent would accept.
Now, don't confuse that with me thinking that using ChatGPT is a good idea to do the above. We are not there yet.