> 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.

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impendia 5 days ago | parent [-]

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.

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AmbroseBierce a day ago | parent [-]

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 a day ago \| parent [-]
		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