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Re:Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artifici... by osigurdson on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:35AM (#34643454)
>> box full of unsorted scraps of paper

Seems like an easy job for AI. Take all scraps of paper out of box, record a video of all scraps, AI make sense of the handwriting and other things. Eventually make a robo that allows you to dumb the scraps into an accounting box that does all of this automatically - fish out receipts, scan, OCR, understand meaning, do arithmetic, done.

Honestly, who would miss this kind of work?

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Re:Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artifici... by astine on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:30PM (#34646598)
Those kinds of systems already exist. They tend to be a bit unreliable and still require a human person to oversee the process. Besides, in truth, they only handle a fraction of what accountants actually deal with.
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