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AI is so profoundly brilliant and stupid at the same time. I had Microsoft 365 Copilot create a presentation from the Word document associated with a half-day seminar. I was looking through the slides and realized that while parts were brilliant, parts were also profoundly unclear on idioms like "low hanging fruit" in the text. Oh well. At least it put the cover for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in a slide (in response to a mention of RPA tool Blue Prism) SMH. It's like Forrest Gump doing research - flashes of brilliance interrupted by profound misunderstandings... Questions for you, the gentle reader of my posts: 1. What has your experience been with the big AI Tools (Grok, ChatGPT, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude, etc.) 2. Which AI engine is your favorite and why?

I spent a good part of the day using AI engines to analyze content related to accounting software in Canada for a project. The amount of information you can gather using these tools is frightening - and you can stack tasks upon tasks to get more done in less time. Learning lots of good things that I will be able to share at this years K2E Canada Inc. presentations and seminars/conferences for K2 Enterprises, LLC . A very transformational day!

Zoho introduced their version of "digital employees" at Zoho Day 2025. #accttech #accountingtechlab

This is a clip from my podcast, the Accounting Technology Lab for @CPA Practice Advisor on Zoho's concept of a "data lakehouse" which combines the combined storage of a data lake with the fast retrieval speed of a SQL database.

If you're struggling to create effective prompts in Microsoft 365 Copilot, try their library of prompts at https://bit.ly/3Wu75fn and their other resources at https://bit.ly/3E5TowZ.

Interesting article about AI and the legal system's effort to catch up with the issues. https://bit.ly/3PKpAZ5

Interesting read giving the lessons learned from the Bench failure by its former CEO.... A must read for CAS operations serving small businesses... https://bit.ly/4jhsKBd

I certainly didn't expect @Bench (Bench Accounting) to end its service today. Wow. Unfortunate, and there are going to be a lot of people looking for someone to help them with year end stuff. https://www.bench.co

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