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My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math (journal.rafaelcosta.me)
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[–] mech@feddit.org 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The core functionality is simple:

Automatically, upon each payment, add the expense to my app
Update an Apple Watch complication with the % of my monthly budget spent
Categorize the purchase for later analysis

Can someone enlighten me? I don't understand why you need AI for this in the first place.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reading the payment and turning it into structured data

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dozens of apps and services do that already and and have for years before AI existed.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago

Yea, but those are all using heaps of proprietary heuristics. 

The beauty of LLMs and one of their most useful tasks is taking unstructured natural language content and converting it into structured machine readable content. 

The core transformer architecture was original designed for translation, and this is basically just a subset of translation. 

 This is basically an optimal use case for LLMs.