Most scanning apps try to get you to buy a cloud storage subscription or pay for extras. Not FairScan, which is free and open-source, and has some powerful features. If you're interested in going paperless, you probably think you need a scanner. It's true that hardware scanners make turning multipage documents into PDFs very simple. But most of us don't have easy access to a scanner.

Leaders of AI companies often argue that AI products will handle mundane tasks, freeing people up to be more productive and creative. And there are few tasks more mundane than taxes. An individual American taxpayer spends roughly 13 hours and 240 out-of-pocket costs just to prepare and file one annual tax return, according to one 2022 study--an estimated 1.15 billion hours collectively spent on tax preparation. So it's not surprising that tax companies have begun rolling out AI-powered tools in an effort to make filing easier. AI-powered tax software, these companies argue, can automate repetitive tasks like data entry, cull through patterns in order to find relevant tax breaks, identify potential compliance risks, and answer tricky questions that filers may have.

During the torture ritual that was doing my taxes this year, I was surprised to find myself giddy after reading these words: "You are now chatting with IRS Representative-1004671045." I had gotten stuck trying to parse my W-2, which, under "Box 14: Other," contained a mysterious 389.70 deduction from my overall pay last year. I tapped the chat button on my tax software for help, expecting to be sucked into customer-service hell. Instead, a real IRS employee answered my question in less than two minutes. The program is not TurboTax, or any one of its many competitors that will give you the white-glove treatment only after you pony up. It is Direct File, a new pilot program made by the IRS.

Remember the Apple car rumors? Project Titan, as it's apparently called, is still progressing, with perhaps, a dose of reality. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the company's decade-old project has shifted from creating a fully self-driving car to an EV more like Tesla's. The car's autonomous features have reportedly been downgraded from a Level 5 system (full automation) to a Level 4 system (full automation in some circumstances) -- and now to Level 2 (partial automation). For context, Tesla's Autopilot is Level 2. Level 2 doesn't have a formal description yet.

Most knowledge graph use cases are data-centric, focusing on representing data entities and their semantic relationships. There are no published success stories to represent large-scale complicated business logic with knowledge graph technologies. In this paper, we will share our innovative and practical approach to representing complicated U.S. and Canadian income tax compliance logic (calculations and rules) via a large-scale knowledge graph. We will cover how the Tax Knowledge Graph is constructed and automated, how it is used to calculate tax refunds, reasoned to find missing info, and navigated to explain the calculated results. The Tax Knowledge Graph has helped transform Intuit's flagship TurboTax product into a smart and personalized experience, accelerating and automating the tax preparation process while instilling confidence for millions of customers.

As such, I have a hard time fathoming the cultural and social importance of the Superbowl, even if I can appreciate the fans' fervor and the ever-so-entertaining pageantry taking place every year. It is my understanding that this year's game between the Patriots and the Rams was a particularly dull affair, and that some Chipotle-looking artist took his shirt off and that it was a whole thing. All the memes pages are talking about it. Also the Spongebob Squarepants part of the Internet is rioting. Apart from that, there is little to be said about the main events which are the game and the half-time show.

AI Artificial Intelligence concept about finding searching or scan system problem. One of the key drivers of the AI (Artificial Intelligence) revolution is open source software. With languages like Python and platforms such as TensorFlow, anybody can create sophisticated models. Yet this does not mean the applications will be useful. They may wind up doing more harm than good, as we've seen with cases involving bias.

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If there's one thing we learned from the commercials that aired during this year's Super Bowl, it's that we humans are definitely not worried about robots or artificial intelligence at this juncture in history. In fact, we find them funny. We're laughing confidently, as humans do when confronted with a new trend or phenomenon that doesn't at all threaten or otherwise discomfit us. No fewer than six commercials that aired during Sunday's broadcast featured either robots or A.I. voice assistants interacting with humans. In each case, there was an implied comparison between bot and human. And in most cases, the message was this: Sure, robots are smarter and more capable than us in many ways.

Thursday's top Amazon deals are on things you'll love. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. When everyone else is checking their email, reading the news, or scrolling through Facebook as they start their day, I'm over here poring over Amazon's deals to try and find those hidden gems and exciting sales on products that are actually awesome. Some days, it can be hard to find more than one or two that really wow me, but today it took no time at all to spot these all-star deals on vacuums, soundbars, smart speakers, protein powder, and tax software.