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ChatGPT for Accounting: How Digits is using Generative Machine Learning to transform finance

Accountants on the Digits platform needed to ask clients clarifying questions about individual transactions, but typing these questions manually for every interaction cost time and introduced tedium into each client communication.

How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Accountant flags transaction
An accountant identifies a transaction they need to ask their client about.
Tools used
T5TensorFlow TransformGoogle Cloud DataflowTensorFlow Extended (TFX)Vertex AITensorFlow TextTensorFlow ServingHuggingFaceRouge
Outcome

Digits' generative ML workflow is live in production, saving accountants time on every client interaction by automatically drafting transaction questions they can confirm with a single click or quickly edit.

Results
Time savedvaluable seconds on each and every client interaction
Running sincelive in production
Source

https://digits.com/developer/posts/assisting-accountants-with-generative-machine-learning/

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Grounding & classification
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