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My problem with this is that AI at the moment is a kind of 80% thing. And you want to plug that into ERPs and accounting?!? We don't even really understand it
by oblio 3y ago
My problem with this is that AI at the moment is a kind of 80% thing.
And you want to plug that into ERPs and accounting?!?
We don't even really understand its failure modes.
- themanmaran 3y agoYea but humans manually retyping things is also a 80% thing.
- mschuster91 3y agoThe thing is it can be used to get rid of the tedious and error-prone busywork. Instead of having highly paid accountants manually type monetary amounts into SAP, the accountants can now just look over and check if the AI was accurate in transcription.
- oblio 3y agoWhy AI, though? Why not OCR and regular software? What does AI bring to this table? Except for VC money.
- mschuster91 3y agoOCR can't grasp context, it needs incoming bills to be formatted in exactly the same way or at least in somewhat consistent area patterns. AI doesn't have that problem, so you can use it to detect areas of interest and then follow up on that with classic OCR.