The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:41 AM UTC

arcticbull wrote: post #26

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #22

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Monopoly action card: the IRS has hallucinated in your favor. Collect paid federal income tax for last year.

My first thought is "we're gonna have to train it up on COBOL."

Post by moonlet » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:43 AM UTC

Post by bdangubic » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:44 AM UTC

thegrim33 wrote: post #41

bdangubic wrote: post #32

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correct - as long as they don’t make 7-figures. anyone over 7-figures is auto-exempt

"Last September the IRS announced it would hire 3,700 new agents to help increase scrutiny of taxes paid by corporations, wealthy people and the private investment funds they increasingly favor. " [ https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/02/inside-the-irs-unit... ] "IRS launches new effort aimed at high-income non-filers; 125,000 cases focused on high earners, including millionaires" [ https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:50 AM UTC

conradev wrote: post #9

jmclnx wrote: post #2

This will not end well. The IRS has tried many times to replace their mainframe systems and failed. So they are upgrading to AI ? I thought Trump was the "save waste" guy. These are finanical systems, they need to add/subtract and multiply/divide lots of transactional data. AI not needed.

> These are finanical systems, they need to add/subtract and multiply/divide lots of transactional data. AI not needed. The IRS gets 125 million paper forms every year: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/politics/tax-season-irs-digit... They tried and failed to scan some of them with OCR: "OCR – This project involved extracting machine-readable data from low-resolution and poor-quality images (both digital and paper) wit…

Post by mullingitover » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 3:31 AM UTC

yostrovs wrote: post #45

mullingitover wrote: post #39

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If you're wondering if the "Efficiency Department" is actually about efficiency, or if they're just cosplaying political Santa Claus, look for cuts to the IRS. The IRS is the most bang for the buck government department. Every dollar spent there nets out many more, because they're chronically under-resourced to audit the whales who can trivially hide their tax obligations. Naturally whenever there's a hint that the d…

The IRS Individual Master File, running on IBM mainframes, may be the oldest software alive. Perhaps there's a need for an update. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/636196-ol...