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treetalkertoday at 3:19 AM1 replyview on HN

>> Imagine if Siri could genuinely file your taxes

Imagine if the government would just tell everyone how much they owed and obviated the need for effing literal artificial intelligence to get taxes done!

>> respond to emails

If we have an AI that can respond properly to emails, then the email doesn't need to be sent in the first place. (Indeed, many do not need to be sent nowadays either!)


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techpressiontoday at 4:28 AM

Yeah the whole filing taxes thing is an epic XY-problem. Governments can make this as easy as a digital signature, there’s zero need for an agent of any kind.

Actually most of the things people use it for is of this kind, instead actually solving the problem (which is out of scope for them to be fair) it’s just adding more things on top that can go wrong.

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