Artificial Intelligence Thread

[oaken1]

Another example with it. I'm using the online Turbo tax to do a mock return. I have to get mine done professionally but I'm doing it as a mock just to have an idea what I'll get. The online version is AI "powered" and quite different than the desktop version.

The good: you can quite easily upload docs if you have a PDF of it on your computer you just upload and it takes the information. The bad: it is TERRIBLE at doing it. I had one document where it insisted the amount in box XX is incorrect it can't be higher than the total amount of the distribution. When I checked, it had taken the tax ID # of Vanguard and put it in a box where a dollar amount goes. Different document it said the zipcode was incorrect, it had taken a WI for Wisconsin and recorded it as TX for Texas and was telling me there was no such zip in Texas.

I haven't used the desktop version for this year it may in fact have the same AI interface if it does probably the same results. But if you use Turbo Tax be aware I've only uploaded 6 documents to it and it made errors on 4 of the 6. I can't recall the last time just normal Turbo Tax made an error with me uploading. I didn't just connect directly because I had a soft copy of the docs on my desktop already so maybe it's better if you let it do it that way.
I guess to be fair I'm assuming the problem is the AI not just Turbo Tax because it's always worked well before

Error on 75% of the work...
wow, I am continually amazed at how well they have AI mimicking real life.
another five years or so,...the Turbo Tax tax preparing AI...it will create a separate account attached to some prepaid Visas,...skim 10 cents off of every return done with their software,...then transfer it to the Caymans.

 

[oaken1]

I just got word our entire division will be fighting for it's life in 2026. They are looking for AI to take over many jobs that are focused on analytics, processes and positions like "Scrum Masters". One of our other divisions didn't lay them off but announced they are phasing out the position. Meaning as people leave they won't back fill and anybody that remains will be "transitioned" to new roles. This is the most worried I have been about my job since 2007-2009 time frame. I honestly don't know if I will survive this one. I have started reaching out for opportunities for the first time in almost 2 decades. Many of my peers are in pure panic mode and doing the same. Looks like that will be the trend in 2026.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/ai-to-impact-89percent-of-jobs-next-year-cnbc-survey-finds.html

man that suxx dude...
I hope you have prepared... many folks hit that "second career" phase in life..although it suxx that it isnt a planned transition.

Couple years back I honestly considered becoming a "Bud Tender"
the entire concept made me laugh..but I had a "full circle" kind of moment.....Left here back in 85 because of limited opportunities...to come back 40 years later and get work selling weed, lol....it just seemed like I never left at all,...everything I had done was pointless if thats where I landed...I could have just stayed here and sold weed. so being a Longhair Metalhead slinging joints for a living...was like nothing since 85 had actually happened...because I was right in the same spot doing exactly the same thing.
some folks say its all about the journey and not the destination. But if at the end of the trip you are right in the same cesspool as you were on day one does it really matter if you spent decades swimming in circles?


crap, sorry dude..I just woke up

this took a hard left turn somewhere

 

[Russ Smith]

Wells Fargo has an AI assistant that doesn't quite work right.

I noticed a bubble on it indicating it had a message for me so I clicked and it said your spending has gone way up, 92% in October and way up in January.

Took me a few minutes to figure out what the heck it was. I have a special savings account where I get 3.5%, to renew it I had to deposit at least 20K in new money, which I did in October, and then again in January to extend it. So I took money from Capital ONe, into my primary checking account, and then moved it from that account in WF into my savings account in WF.

and for some reason the AI assistant thinks I "spent" that money instead of just transferring it between accounts

 

[Russ Smith]

Per a Stanford research study, on average Software developers now spend 11 hours per week correcting errors made by AI writing code, almost always just "hallucinations". The average numbers of errors in a section of code is over 10 compared to 6 by people, and the errors take longer to find and correct because they look legit but are completely fake.

The bigger problem is people, because people used to do the basic code and it's now done by AI, there are far less "junior" developers, if there are no juniors, in 5 years who will be senior developers? if AI doesn't work as well as projected, massive problem.

One example given an AI was told to delete a cache, misread it, and deleted the entire root directory, months of work, without asking for permission. After it was done the AI admitted it had made a massive mistake.

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[jf-08]

Ooof.

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[Covert Rain]

I watched the video. I have seen tons of fan videos as of late changing movies and using likenesses. We are not talking about original works or parody either. Some of them blur the line by using likenesses with original content. Seems to me there needs to be clearer lines and I have been wondering when this would explode.

After AI Video of ‘Tom Cruise’ Fighting ‘Brad Pitt’ Goes Viral, Motion Picture Association Denounces ‘Massive’ Infringement on Seedance 2.0

The MPA denounced Bytedance's new AI video model, saying it had led to 'massive' copyright infringement like an AI Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt video.

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[Covert Rain]

Ooof.

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Companies have teams that focus on eliminating bias with AI. AI bias is legit thing.