Somewhere during a conversation with ChatGPT, I shared my opinion of printers. These have to be the most infuriating, outdated pieces of technology allowed to come to work every day. This comment from ChatGPT made me laugh: "The printer is perhaps the only piece of office technology that can have paper, electricity, a working network connection, and three perfectly good ink cartridges, yet refuse to scan a document because it's out of cyan. Scan. A. Document. An operation that requires precisely zero cyan. We've spent decades making computers faster, networks smarter, and software more capable. AI can analyze thousands of documents in seconds. But the printer? The printer has decided that Tuesday is not a good day to cooperate. And somewhere in a conference room, a business leader is discussing digital transformation while an employee is trying to convince a printer to recognize that Tray 2 does, in fact, contain paper. Perhaps the ultimate Opposite Absurdity Test is: “We need our printers to be less reliable.” For once, the technology industry has delivered beyond expectations." P.S. The Opposite Absurdity Test is our name for a discovery we made about website puffery. .

ChatGPT just rolled out an interesting feature called "Intelligent UI" for its paid accounts. Instead of responding only with text, ChatGPT can now generate visual elements like: • forms and buttons • charts and comparisons • interactive diagrams • calculators • task-specific tools Early feedback suggests that its polish is ahead of its accuracy. OpenAI even says that it has work to do so that's fair. What this means is that users can now build tools inside a conversation. For accounting professionals, this has some interesting implications. Imagine one of your clients feeding ChatGPT their financials and receiving a calculator in return. How does your client verify its accuracy? None of us can stay on top of all the changes that are happening almost daily. What we can do is consider how clients are using AI in new ways. Where does your expertise fit into their conversations?