{"id":34153,"date":"2017-02-04T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T20:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/now-an-artificial-intelligence-can-do-your-taxes-for-you"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:51:15","slug":"now-an-artificial-intelligence-can-do-your-taxes-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/now-an-artificial-intelligence-can-do-your-taxes-for-you","title":{"rendered":"Now, An Artificial Intelligence Can Do Your Taxes For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pVK5UeimatQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watson was originally seen as mostly a breakthrough medical tool but has since been used in a much wider range of applications, including retail<\/li>\n<li>Even Geico currently uses IBM Watson, they use the AI program in 46 states to deliver a better digital experience to their customers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IBM understands the unique nature of its artificial intelligence (AI) <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/images\/all-about-ibms-watson-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">software assistant Watson<\/a>, and so they are not taking the direct consumer approach of Siri, Cortana, Alexa, or Google\u2019s Assistant.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with H&amp;R Block, Watson is being trained \u201con the language of taxes,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/watson\/stories\/taxes.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM\u2019s press release<\/a> announcing Watson\u2019s new role as the world\u2019s first AI tax preparation assistant.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/now-an-artificial-intelligence-can-do-your-taxes-for-you\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/now-an-artificial-intelligence-can-do-your-taxes-for-you\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief Watson was originally seen as mostly a breakthrough medical tool but has since been used in a much wider range of applications, including retail Even Geico currently uses IBM Watson, they use the AI program in 46 states to deliver a better digital experience to their customers IBM understands the unique nature of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58870,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34153\/revisions\/58870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}