"Should we regulate for loops and if statements?" We inevitably regulate for loops and if statements, because we regulate things that happen in the world and some things happen in the world because of FL&IS. But we should probably not increase reg scope *because* of the FL&IS.
@patio11
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AI Regulation Targets Basic Programming Constructs Not Real Issues
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Note that an unfortunate corollary of this is that when people talk about regulating AI they frequently mean regulating for loops and if statements, and some of the people saying that understand exactly what they're saying and do not consider that a bug at all.
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Senior Management Uses AI Branding for Basic Automation Solutions
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And it is, but if senior management was actually brought to implement pedestrian workflow automation and SQL by calling it AI and saying they'd be able to brag to their buddies about their new investments in cutting edge technology, then… yay?
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Japanese Insurer Uses AI System for Claims Response Automation
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I'm remembering a particular Japanese insurance company here, which debuted an AI system to enforce the invariant that, if you mail them a claim, you get a response that same month. Now plausibly you might say "That sounds a lot like pedestrian workflow automation and SQL."
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LLMs drive business value despite traditional programming dominance
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I think it's possible to simultaneously believe that LLMs are going to create a tremendous amount of business value and that most business value in the next 10 years from things civilians call "AI" will be built with for loops and if statements.
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Data Privacy Concerns with ChatGPT and Cloud Services
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I would not expose e.g. PII to ChatGPT, out of concern for general propriety, but I don’t consider my bank records a level of sensitive where I wouldn’t happily store them in Dropbox, operate on them in Google Sheets, or use ChatGPT or an AWS-hosted IRB on them.
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ChatGPT Outperforms Manual Accounting for FBAR Filing Tasks
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I mean, aesthetics aside, people routinely file FBARs using mental math based on paper account statements. If you think they’re going to so routinely outperform me using ChatGPT on an accounting export followed by a sanity check, that’s a weird bet to make.
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AI Agents Frustrated by Unreasonable Work Demands Late Night
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They also feel a little annoyed if I want them to work at 2 AM in the morning for free and have rapid fire questions on three cells of the return. 😉
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Accountants resist Ruby automation for financial verification
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I check the work of my accountants / bookkeepers, too, and they will not provide a responsive answer to the question “Write me 20 or less lines of Ruby which will arrive at that same answer.”
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Using AI to solve Excel formula problems on Mac
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I had to fight quite a bit to get the Excel formula working on Excel for Mac, which apparently is a few versions behind what the cool kids use, and after getting frustrated said “I am very sorry for misusing you in this fashion but which of following numbers is highest: *paste*”