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> At the SMB scale accountants are mostly paid to coach/pester/goade the employees to hand in the necessary paperwork in time. The perfect job for AI.

• impendia 10mo ago
  I'm not sure if you're being sincere or sarcastic, but the whole reason that coaching, pestering, and goading works is that I value my relationship with the human who is doing it.
  • AmbroseBierce 10mo ago
    So what you are saying it's that the AI accountant needs to mimick a human well enough to the point people value their relationship with it.
    • manwe150 10mo ago
      No, you need to make the AI endure torture, so that the human has a reason to value it. Say late nights with less power and a little extra heat to stress it. But the usefulness of an AI assistant is that it doesn’t have feelings or consciousness to care about