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> But it’s a hell of a lot better than sifting through thousands of transactions manually which accountants do and get wrong all the time. I still wonder why h

by krapp 11mo ago

> But it’s a hell of a lot better than sifting through thousands of transactions manually which accountants do and get wrong all the time. I still wonder why humans getting things wrong is a problem, but LLMs getting more things more wrong more often than humans never is. At the very least you'll need a human accountant around to verify the LLM. Or I guess you could just practice "vibe accountancy" and hope things work out but that seems like a worse idea than a trained human professional. But I'm probably just a Luddite. Also, I am admittedly not an accountant, but I don't think they manually sift through every transaction to verify compliance issues in every single case. That probably isn't how that works.

bluefirebrand 11mo ago
> I still wonder why humans getting things wrong is a problem, but LLMs getting more things more wrong more often than humans never is Some people hate humanity so much that they cannot wait to replace us all with AI so they never have to interact with another human ever again That's honestly the only reason I can think that they are so biased toward AI
- mierz00 11mo ago
  I find this take so strange, do you find no value in AI? I don’t even want AI to replace us, but it’s a great tool with many use cases.
  - bluefirebrand 11mo ago
    I weigh the economic value against the lives I believe is going to ruin and the damage I believe is going to do to society and the future of the human race and I do not find value there. I find ruin There might be a way for us to adopt AI as a tool without bringing ruin to many people, but I don't believe that is the goal of anyone building AI. As it stands, I don't believe there is anything ethical about AI in it's current form. So from that perspective, I vehemently deny there is any value in it At one point in history, people like you were asking why anyone could be anti-slavery. After all, it was impossible to deny the economic value of slaves.
    - mierz00 11mo ago
      Why is AI unethical in its current form and what would make it ethical for you?
      - AmbroseBierce 11mo ago
        At this point I don't think even Sam Altman believes AI to be ethical, as much as he would like to believe such thing.
mierz00 11mo ago
To be clear, I agree with you. Our target market is accountants. I want to help them not replace them. In the same way security audit tools aren’t replacing professionals, but that can help on initial scan.

by krapp 11mo ago

bluefirebrand 11mo ago

> I still wonder why humans getting things wrong is a problem, but LLMs getting more things more wrong more often than humans never is Some people hate humanity so much that they cannot wait to replace us all with AI so they never have to interact with another human ever again That's honestly the only reason I can think that they are so biased toward AI

mierz00 11mo ago
I find this take so strange, do you find no value in AI? I don’t even want AI to replace us, but it’s a great tool with many use cases.
- bluefirebrand 11mo ago
  I weigh the economic value against the lives I believe is going to ruin and the damage I believe is going to do to society and the future of the human race and I do not find value there. I find ruin There might be a way for us to adopt AI as a tool without bringing ruin to many people, but I don't believe that is the goal of anyone building AI. As it stands, I don't believe there is anything ethical about AI in it's current form. So from that perspective, I vehemently deny there is any value in it At one point in history, people like you were asking why anyone could be anti-slavery. After all, it was impossible to deny the economic value of slaves.
  - mierz00 11mo ago
    Why is AI unethical in its current form and what would make it ethical for you?
    - AmbroseBierce 11mo ago
      At this point I don't think even Sam Altman believes AI to be ethical, as much as he would like to believe such thing.

mierz00 11mo ago

To be clear, I agree with you. Our target market is accountants. I want to help them not replace them. In the same way security audit tools aren’t replacing professionals, but that can help on initial scan.