What Could Accounting-Specific AI Bring?

New tools are being built for finance. How can accountants best leverage them?

By Hitendra Patil
Rise of The AiCCOUNTANTS

Bloomberg released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPT, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) specifically trained on a wide range of financial data to support diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks within the financial industry.

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According to Bloomberg, “The team pulled from this extensive archive of financial data to create a comprehensive 363 billion token dataset consisting of English financial documents. This data was augmented with a 345 billion token public dataset to create a large training corpus with over 700 billion tokens. Using a portion of this training corpus, the team trained a 50-billion parameter decoder-only causal language model.”

Imagine how long it will take for a human being to grasp that volume of data!

Posted on February 11, 2024

Hitendra Patil

About the Author

Hitendra Patil is the president of the Global F&A and CPA outsourcing services unit of Datamatics Business Solutions, Inc., a global provider of outsourced accounting, bookkeeping, finance, tax preparation, audit & assurance, payroll and demand generation & data services.

He is one of the profession's leading authorities on accounting technology, accounting firm innovation, and client accounting and advisory services (CAS / CAAS) and among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting, the Top 10 Accounting Influencers to Follow on Social Media, and the Top 100 Accounting Social Media Leaderboard.

He is the best-selling author of
“The Definitive Success Guide to Client Accounting Services.”

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"Accountaneur: The Entrepreneurial Accountant."

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For over 20 years, he has worked exclusively for the accounting industry, leading several functions, including accounting, payroll, tax, and advisory services and technology solutions used by professional accountants.

He is a regularly published author in many leading publications in the United States accounting profession. Accountants have bought his best-selling books in 12 countries across five continents. He frequently provides fresh thought leadership and actionable insights to the accounting profession about CAS/CAAS, practice growth, entrepreneurship in accounting, and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and cybersecurity.

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Patil's newest book is, "Rise of The AiCCOUNTANTS: The What, Why, and How of Artificial Intelligence – Exclusively for Accountants.”
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