The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia • Hacker News Board

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by dartos » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:05 AM UTC

gigel82 wrote: post #5

If they have this kind of cash why not just fix the system they already have and improve IRS Free File and make it available to everyone?

How would ensuring the IRS is able to correctly do its job make more money for the ultra wealthy?

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by kylehotchkiss » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:05 AM UTC

DeepYogurt wrote: post #10

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

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by dartos » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:06 AM UTC

anotherhue wrote: post #3

Imagine a world in which they use this computer to model ways to simplify the tax code.

How would a simple tax code help the ultra wealthy?

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by Neywiny » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:06 AM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #18

jonfromsf wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI is GREAT at porting software to new languages. That's like one of the things it is best at.

> IBM says GenAI can convert that old COBOL code to Java for you https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/22/ibm_says_genai_can_co...

Not that Java is dead but that is reminiscent of the futurama professor invention of translating one dead language into another.

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by bbddg » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:11 AM UTC

anotherhue wrote: post #3

Imagine a world in which they use this computer to model ways to simplify the tax code.

Don't need a super computer to do that hah

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by arcticbull » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:13 AM UTC

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #22

DeepYogurt wrote: post #10

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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."

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by fragmede » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:14 AM UTC

dartos wrote: post #20

fragmede wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> IBM says GenAI can convert that old COBOL code to Java for you https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/22/ibm_says_genai_can_co...

Also from that article > IBM is giving its mainframe customers a tool infused with generative AI to translate COBOL code to Java Hard to wholesale believe claims when they are literally the ones selling that capability. It probably works well for already clear and well structured cobol.

there's https://www.codeconvert.ai/cobol-to-python-converter if you prefer python

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by xeromal » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:16 AM UTC

gigel82 wrote: post #5

If they have this kind of cash why not just fix the system they already have and improve IRS Free File and make it available to everyone?

Their system is a hodge podge of bailing wire and duct tape strapped cobal. I don't think there's a way to "fix" it other than redoing it in pieces.

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by qgin » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:20 AM UTC

Audits for everyone

Re: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

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Post by beej71 » Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:22 AM UTC

qgin wrote: post #29

Audits for everyone

It will definitely be trained to not audit billionaires.