Could AI Be The Biggest Win For Taxpayers

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Government bots designed to slash red tape and search case law could save the feds up to $41 billion per year by freeing up 1.2 billion working hours a study by consultancy firm Deloitte predicts. Some federal agencies already are already using AI in some form. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has a customer service chatbot named Emma. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses A.I. to track polio.

While the article states "A.I. is out to replace tasks, not necessarily jobs" someone is still currently doing those tasks. And there is only so many higher-value jobs to be had. While Government spending is in desperate need of some serious trimming down, and AI could be quite useful there, I'm still cautious.

Even as it rolls out robots, machine learning, computer vision and other tools in fits and starts, the government is sure to lag behind private industry in embracing A.I. But as these technologies increasingly power our on-demand lives, voters likely will find the endless DMV line or a six- to-eight-week wait for a new passport unacceptable - and hold officeholders responsible.
 
Hypergreatthing said:
taxpayers?
I really doubt that. All that "saved" money will be funneled into interests. It would be naive to think it would be returned to the tax payers.
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There have already been attempts to get the government to send you a precalculated tax debt or gain, without you having to worry about it, and allow you to choose to do your own if you wanted to instead. It was shown to be fairly accurate as well as lowering the amount of people needed by the IRS. Guess what? H&R Block as well as Intuit fought tooth and nail to prevent this.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hil...ax-day-a-torture-for-you-20150414-column.html
 
So wait - this will basically comb through all the laws in a given court case? Will it also find all the laws that contradict eachother and then explode upon realizing it?
 
nutzo said:
I'm sorry Dave, but I can't do that. Our records show that you died 3 years ago. All your assets have been frozen to cover your back taxes. Thank you for voting last week.
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How can a human be smart enough to imagine an AI that can do this while being dumb enough to think our Government would let them try it?
 
*waits for automatic car driving religious folks to show up to this thread*

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Still remember a short story I read as a teenager.

The government had built huge a computer to handle all the problems in the world.
It would collect and analyze massive amounts of data and could even predict crimes before they happened.

Then someone tried to blow up the computer, and they said they attacked the computer because the computer had their father arrested.
(father had the same name)
They couldn't figure out how/why the computer could have made this mistake.
Then the detective went over to one of the computer terminals and asked the computer what it wanted.

The computer response: I want to die.

This is what we have to look forward to :p
 
Abolish the Fed and there won't be any need for this madness.
Put AI in control of taxes, and next thing we know, they'll be using our own hard earned cash to fund the Matrix.
 
With all of these AI systems being put to use, someone should create a central AI that interconnects them all on a virtual private network. The central AI would be the authoritative power over the subsystem AI's. Kinda like a central nervous system.

We could call it ... LandNet.
 
AI to search case law? Are you serious...
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If anyone cares to look at examples like the FDA's FACTS system, you'd know that doing stuff other than defense/security/*insert euphemism here* gets second fiddle.
AI to search case law my ass.
 
rgMekanic said:
Government bots designed to slash red tape and search case law could save the feds up to $41 billion per year by freeing up 1.2 billion working hours a study by consultancy firm Deloitte predicts. Some federal agencies already are already using AI in some form. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has a customer service chatbot named Emma. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses A.I. to track polio.

While the article states "A.I. is out to replace tasks, not necessarily jobs" someone is still currently doing those tasks. And there is only so many higher-value jobs to be had. While Government spending is in desperate need of some serious trimming down, and AI could be quite useful there, I'm still cautious.

Even as it rolls out robots, machine learning, computer vision and other tools in fits and starts, the government is sure to lag behind private industry in embracing A.I. But as these technologies increasingly power our on-demand lives, voters likely will find the endless DMV line or a six- to-eight-week wait for a new passport unacceptable - and hold officeholders responsible.
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Yes the US Citizenship and Immigration Services AI Bot is running on a beat down Cyrix CPU for sure.....
 
Can they usse these technologies to process our tax stamps faster please ? :mad:
 
AI and the government system hand in hand that's just a wonderful Ideal, another "TIP" for you.. adding snakes to planes will help control the mouse problem.

Wait isn't the government full of "artificial intelligence" already?
 
If they really want to help, they'd find a way to replace our elected leaders with an AI.
 
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