A CPA's Intro To AI - What You Need To Know
A CPA's Intro To AI - What You Need To Know
A CPA's Intro To AI - What You Need To Know
A CPA’S INTRODUCTION TO AI
– WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW*
*From A CPA’s Introduction to AI: From Algorithms to Deep Learning, What You Need to
Know, published by CPA Canada and AICPA, 2019
OVERVIEW
1. Introduction.
2. What is AI?
6. What’s next?
INTRODUCTION
Right now...
• AI is everywhere!
• Websites, apps & social media can track everything from your
shopping behavior to your heart rate.
• Real data in real time with no surveys & response bias, just facts.
FROM DISTRIBUTED TO CLOUD COMPUTING
• Passive data collection has made data sets so massive & complex that
traditional software just can’t keep up.
• That solved the problem for large technology companies but, what
about the smaller organizations that still had no way to access &
process large volumes of data effectively.
FROM DISTRIBUTED TO CLOUD COMPUTING
• Enter Cloud Computing – a rentable network of remote
servers hosted on the internet to store, manage and
process data.
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HOW AI WORKS
• For AI programs to navigate through situational complexities,
different approaches on creating software, with the ability to
determine different outcomes, are necessary.
• It has been in practice for a long time & has been the
underlying premise for AI until recent advances in machine
learning & deep learning, which are techniques within AI.
HOW AI WORKS
• E.G. to create systems to calculate tax through
a digitized decision-making process, the Logic
& Rules approach employs a detailed series of
computer instructions, including ‘if, then, else’
or probabilities/weights.