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Havoc ◴[] No.45063050[source]
Not sure what these guys are studying but can tell you in the real world - essentially zero AI rollout in accounting world for anything serious.

We've got access to some fancy enterprise copilot version, deep research, MS office integration and all that jazz. I use it diligently every day...to make me a summary of today's global news.

When I try to apply it to actual accounting work. It hallucinates left, right & center on stuff that can't be wrong. Millions and millions off. That's how you get the taxman to kick down your door. Even simple "are these two numbers the same" get false positives so often that it's impossible to trust. So now I've got a review tool that I can't trust the output of? It's like a programming language where the equality (==) symbol has a built in 20% random number generator and you're supposed to write mission critical code with it.

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1. Balgair ◴[] No.45065576[source]
Aisde: Hey, whats the prompt you're using for a summary of the news events?
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2. Havoc ◴[] No.45070269[source]
Nothing super sophisticated - the key part is telling it the categories I want. It seems really good at sticking to that out of the box and seems to do 2-3 items for each category.

```Summarize today's news stories in concise bullet points focusing on relevance and clarity. Organize the summary into the following sections:

* World Events: Major global developments and international headlines

* Geopolitics: Political tensions, alliances or diplomatic events

* London: Local news and developments specific to London

* Supply chains: etc ```

One thing I've had ZERO luck is making it look for forward looking economic indicators. No idea why but it doesn't work at all

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3. Balgair ◴[] No.45077214[source]
Strange!

I used to watch the YT channel that was just the Star Wars theme with the yellow wall of text being someone grab of the NYT's war section.

I've always wanted to do that again but with an Ai summarizing the news and making it Star-Wars-y.

Thank for the prompts!