Week 8 - BALT 4363 - LinkedIn Refresh and Chatbase Exploration
This week, I decided to update my LinkedIn profile to reflect the AI skills I’ve cultivated in this course. These skills include Python, Replit, Lovable, Chatbase, and Generative AI. While updating my profile and reflecting on the knowledge gained from this course, I found myself once again considering the implications of AI in accounting, my chosen career field. Unfortunately, many discussions purport that AI will lead to the demise of humans’ role in accounting. At best, this claim is only half true. While it is inevitable that AI will replace accountants previously tasked with completing journal entries and other repetitive work, I predict the implementation of AI will not eradicate the human element of accounting. Instead, there will be a shift in accounting roles. Repetitive tasks will be replaced by those increasingly driven by creative thinking and analytics. Furthermore, AI is prone to mistakes and hallucinations. Based on these circumstances, human-based accounting roles will ...