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		bshipp on April 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI Accountant, graded by human CPAs My wife is a CPA accountant and I'll go out on a limb and say that 80% of her time is spent doing the equivalent of data cleaning and validation. The balance of her time is making judgement calls so she can appropriately reconcile notional rules against the messiness of real world business transactions.

boringuser2 on April 13, 2023 [–]

This seems similar to basically all knowledge-work.

99% hampered with low-cognitive throughput tasks, where most of your business value is generated in the 1% of what you do.

It's possible that AI isn't close to replacing human efforts.

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